This bit of news got a lot of play this week: Millennials — Americans age 18 to 37 — are lousy tippers. In fact, they say they would prefer higher prices if tips were eliminated.

CreditCards.com, which conducted the survey of 1,000 people, says millennials might just have picked up the cheap-tip habit as they traveled to foreign countries where tipping isn’t a tradition.

Or because of companies like Uber, where you can get away without tipping because you don’t have to hand cash to the driver and suffer his derisive stare.

Let me suggest this: Americans in that age group may be lousy tippers because they don’t have a lot of money and are becoming frugal. And that could be a sign of bigger problems in the future.