Originally Posted by
vilcas
If hotel drivers are paid less than minimum wage it is not the responsibility of the hotel customer to subsidize this. If people stop taking those jobs they will raise the compensation. Tipping in this country is out of control. Tipping is a gesture of appreciation for service above and beyond the ordinary. There should not be a system in place where a minimum tip is expected.
And by that logic if people stop taking regional airline pilot jobs we'd have wages good enough to provide more than a mud hut somewhere down in the dumbest section of the southeast. Also you'd probably be less inclined to dream up "the way things ought to be" and just let go of $2/day for van drivers. That $40/night your company pays the hotel isn't paying for anything besides the worst room next to the elevator.
Welcome to reality. If you don't want to tip that's your call, but there's no excuse not to tip someone that is working for them. Visit a country where tipping is not customary like Japan. You pay more for a service/product because they're paid more. You can't have it both ways.