Splitting the bill evenly is a tax on whoever ordered the salad, and everyone knows it, and everyone does it anyway because saying so costs more than the difference.
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It is also a tax on not drinking, which is the version nobody mentions and which is much larger.
The maths is trivial and the social cost is enormous, which tells you it was never about the maths.
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