If you don't tip, the waiter literally paid for your meal. You're stealing. It's very fucked up to not tip. Employees will spit in or step on your food if you're known not to tip.

We are not developing towards a dictatorship. We have an electoral college. Our presidents have always been decided for us, and our vote for presidency is and always has been merely performative.

I know you probably think you're joking by calling us a third world country, you think you're being cute. There are places in the US which are more impoverished than in India, for example West Virginia and Mississippi. I know this because I have heard this comment from Indian doctors who come to the US, both in person and in filmed interviews.