Editing Gratuity (section)

===Discomfort===
Tipping might be discomforting to some people because it adds the necessity of figuring out the tip amount each time, which is made harder by the fact that the tip amount the service provider is hoping to receive, is in general, unknown to the customer. A lack of or too low a tip might offend the service provider, this adds the discomfort of creating an unpleasant social encounter to each service transaction which might involve the expectation of tipping.
Tipping might be discomforting also to some service providers as they might view it as derogating to their occupation, as "a token of inferiority".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rev. Dr. Barber II |first1=William J. |title=The Racist History of Tipping |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/17/william-barber-tipping-racist-past-227361/ |access-date=23 July 2021 |work=Politico Magazine |publisher=Politico |date=17 July 2019 |ref=Politico}}</ref> William Scott in his ''The Itching Palm''<ref name="The Itching Palm">{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=William R. |title=The Itching Palm: A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America |date=1916 |publisher=The Penn Publishing Company |location=Philadelphia |page=51 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/33170/33170-h/33170-h.htm}}</ref> study wrote: "The relation of a man giving a tip and a man accepting it is as undemocratic as the relation of master and slave. A citizen in a republic ought to stand shoulder to shoulder with every other citizen, with no thought of cringing, without an assumption of superiority or an acknowledgment of inferiority".