The Case against Tipping: Evaluating Michael Lewis' Argument

Society is stocked full of various trends and epidemics. To many, the way in which these trends start is a mystery. As members of a society, we often subconsciously take part in these patterns without questioning our participation. Therefore, people continue to ignore the drastic changes in society, and the reasons why they occur so swiftly. There is a lack of motivation to take a step back and inquire about society as a whole, and rethink one’s actions. In The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell effectively discusses and analyzes how and why ideas spread throughout societies using the rhetorical appeals, ethos, pathos and logos.

The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell looks at a number of social epidemics and analyzes their build up to the point where they tip. “Tipping” is that point where an epidemic booms, or grows, to its maximum potential. Gladwell begins defining “tipping” with a literal example of the famous shoes, Hush Puppies. Once considered old-fashioned, Hush Puppies experienced a social boom in the mid-90s when hipsters in New York made them trendy again. Gladwell continues explaining “tipping” with a medical epidemic of syphilis in Baltimore. Gladwell introduces us to three essential rules of epidemics: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor and the Power of Context. The Law of the Few says a key factor in epidemics is the role of the messenger: it

In The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell, the tone clearly drives the strategy to be logos. Logos is an exceptional rhetorical strategy as it persuades the reader, not through the use of emotions and feelings, but rather through the use of logic and reasoning. There exists an energy in the style in which Gladwell writes that has the power to persuade the audience to believe what he believes in, the Tipping Point. Gladwell does not only give us his theory on how epidemics spread, but uses logos to connect the world we live in to his theory. The author’s use of logos results in a greater impact of the rhetoric.

As women account for two – thirds of tipped workers, raising tipped minimum wage will help decreasing the

Today I will discuss the initial purposes of tipping and the customer’s point of view as well as the view of the servers on how the no tip policy would impact the service industry.

Many parts of our daily life revolve around social sciences and are caused by much more research and in-depth thought than we may originally realize. Innumerable products, ideas, epidemics, and modern thought processes are the product of tipping points. For any idea to gain enough ground to become popular to a large audience, it has to have a very specific environment and the idea must be spread at very certain times in history. There is a very precarious balance to making anything have the ability to be prominent or sought after. Nature, political revolutions, and credibility and popularity are all events and phenomena that have tipping points and relate to The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.

Lastly, they explain the fundamental ideas of the book. Incentives are “means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing.”; according to the authors, they “are the cornerstone of modern life”. Levitt and Dubner also focus the book on the following concepts:

Tips are generally a small amount of money given to a person as gratitude for a service that has been provided. There are many times throughout our everyday lives in which we are put in a position to leave a gratuity. Whether it be dining at a restaurant, getting your hair cut at the salon, or having a few drinks with friends at a bar. In each case there was a service provided to you, now you have a decision to make, how much of a tip is considered acceptable and should you tip everyone that provides a service to you? There are many guidelines for consumers to follow. With modern technology there are convenient tip calculators available as features on most new cellular phones. When deciding on the tip amount the

4) How would you relate “the law of the few” to a transition management team?

In the essay “Tipping is an Abomination,” Brian Palmer believes tipping should be abolished in restaurants and different workforce. Palmer defines tipping as giving an amount for a worker who did a good service to a customer. Tipping started in the nineteen centuries in Europe where tipping was accepted in restaurants for labour costs. Palmer indicates tipping as a bad custom such as tipping doesn’t show demanding work, having different tip sizes, stereotyping ethnic groups, tipping doesn’t pay for a living wage, and sharing tips with co-workers. Tipping illustrates a bad custom because workers don’t receive the same amount as their co-workers and receive racism from customers. When giving out tips workers and customers in a restaurant should

Back in 1966 The United States we established that tipping services should have a set minimum wage; It was set at 50% of the current minimum wage at the time. In 1991, when minimum wage was 4.25, tipping wage was at 2.13. (Stuart 2) It has not changed since that day in history. Contrary to the major accepted practice that tipping helps servers make more money If we abolish tipping, we will be able to lift those working in the service industry out of poverty, provide a better work environment for restaurants, and develop a new system to show gratitude towards those who do an exceptional job.

It puts a big portion of the employees' expected minimum wage at the mercy of everday customers. You can never be one hundred percent sure if a customer will tip or not, even if you did provide excellent service. This is because there are various different factors that go into a customer's decision on how much to tip, if at all. These factors include the individual

We live in a world where most humans act like sheep following the herd; most people would rather follow the crowd rather than think for themselves. From cheating on an exam to copying other people’s ideas, that seems to be the norm in our society: most people want the easy way out for everything, as thinking is actually hard to do. So for the very few people who do put effort into thinking and use their creativity to develop novel ideas and implement them through the commercialization of a product or service, they have to be rewarded so that all their effort, time, and money aren’t spent in vain.

Why the practice of tipping has emerged as a major method of compensating the wait staff;

What can one consider being a tipping point in a situation. Is it when a situation changes from bad to worse? Could it be when it changes from good to better? Or could it be from when it changes from a bad situation and all of a sudden it turns around and becomes good? In my essay we are going to explore the tipping point from four different authors: Malcolm Gladwell, Mary G. King, Lynne M. Anderson, and Christine M. Pearson. From subject of: hush puppies, teen suicide, crime, smoking, incivility in the workplace and the black women’s breakthrough into clerical work. There could be many reasons why there were tipping