I have, in fact, worked for tips so don't assume shit about me. I have also worked for minimum wage, with no avenue for tips.

As someone who lives in a country with worker's rights, I will admit even when I was working for tips, the place I worked was legally required to pay minimum wage. (they just get around that by making it so they don't have to give you the hours, fuck zero hour contracts)

Even then, there were people who weren't making enough to do anything but rent a room somewhere and MAYBE go out for a drink at their local once a week.

It's definitely more accurate to say people prefer having contracted hours, and a wage they can live off, than the threat of starvation and homelessness if they don't smile hard enough to make some geriatric fart take pity and throw them some spare change.