not tipping made Tesla shockingly uncomfortable. She had an ungodly amount of money, and one of the ways she’d always mitigated that was by tipping high—in places where she didn’t control the pay rate. In her own companies, people were paid living wages, which was just easier all around. Besides the general ethics of it, the problem with a tip-based system was that it made the server more loyal to the customer than to the nominal employer.
