<story><title>Uber rolls out in-app tipping</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/06/20/uber-rolls-out-in-app-tipping-for-drivers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bpicolo</author><text>Why not just raise the prices a bit again? Now I&amp;#x27;m worried I&amp;#x27;ll get down-starred for not tipping on Uber, which is just kind of annoying. I feel like not requiring a tip is Uber&amp;#x27;s biggest differentiator</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RunawayGalaxy</author><text>You answered your own question. Why raise prices and risk losing customers when they can just use widely accepted social pressure to coerce you into subsidizing their cost of doing business for free?</text></comment>
<story><title>Uber rolls out in-app tipping</title><url>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2017/06/20/uber-rolls-out-in-app-tipping-for-drivers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bpicolo</author><text>Why not just raise the prices a bit again? Now I&amp;#x27;m worried I&amp;#x27;ll get down-starred for not tipping on Uber, which is just kind of annoying. I feel like not requiring a tip is Uber&amp;#x27;s biggest differentiator</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaceflunky</author><text>Uber is going to use tipping as excuse to lower payouts to drivers.&lt;p&gt;If drivers get 80% of the fare now, they&amp;#x27;ll get 70% of the fare in a couple months because Uber will argue that drivers get tips now, which more than compensate for that loss.</text></comment>