I completely agree with your observations of small business owners. Seen it happen with close family members. I believe the term is petite bourgeoisie.
20% is certainly not the norm. 20% is amazing service 12 to 15% has always been customary norm in my experience. It seems these restaurants plan to only suggest tips of 18% or higher At checkout have worked on you. Offloading more of the cost onto you.
From my limited understanding this info will eventually become public as you imply but Anthropic must feel keeping this info private for now is in their benefit.
I fully suspect it would hurt their image and IPO and that’s why they are hiding it for now. To get as large of IPO as possible.
I think this is the incident you are talking about:
In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released an FBI tip in which a complainant alleged President Donald Trump witnessed her uncle kill her newborn child and dispose of the body in Lake Michigan when she was 13 and being trafficked for sex by Jeffrey Epstein.
I personally know one lady in her 70s that absolutely will be destroyed if she doesn’t get her check. She lives “paycheck to paycheck” and the only check she gets is Social Security. This makes me sick.
I completely agree with your observations of small business owners. Seen it happen with close family members. I believe the term is petite bourgeoisie.