What We’re Reading is a curated list of great pieces from around the Web from Slate editors and writers, just for Slate Plus members. Here are our favorite stories for the week of Oct. 12:

“Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China’s Rich Kids” by Christopher Beam, Businessweek
This piece is smart, funny, and surprisingly poignant. You will be outraged at China’s rich kids, you will shake your head at their excesses, and you will end up feeling existentially sad for them. –Alison Griswold, business and economics writer

“Taylor Swift’s Realest Interview Ever” by Chuck Klosterman, GQ
Klosterman’s thoughtful, sneaky-tough take on Taylor Swift is a small triumph of the celebrity-profile form. There’s a danger, when writing about Swift, of regurgitating tired narratives about her persona and process, but for the most part Klosterman avoids pontification and lets Taylor talk. The results puncture the façade of the most overexposed star on the planet. –Sharan Shetty, Brow Beat writer

“Danny Meyer Is Eliminating All Tipping at His Restaurants and Significantly Raising Prices to Make Up the Difference, a Move That Will Raise Wages, Save the Hospitality Industry, and Forever Change How Diners Dine” by Ryan Sutton, Eater
Tipping is terrible—it's uncomfortable for the person tipping and detrimental to the person being tipped—so the news that Danny Meyer is getting rid of it at his influential restaurants is great. Diners will know how much they’re paying when they order and cooks will finely get paid a reasonable salary. Everyone wins. –Miriam Krule, assistant editor

“Democrats Wasted Their Chance to Test Clinton” by Megan McArdle, BloombergView
As Megan McArdle points out, Clinton didn’t fare too well the last time she faced a tough debate opponent (Barack Obama). So if the men on the stage with her Tuesday night are angling for positions in her cabinet, it would behoove them to toughen her up rather than handle her with kid gloves. –Rachael Larimore, senior editor

“Raiders of the Lost Web: If a Pulitzer-Finalist 34-Part Series of Investigative Journalism Can Vanish From the Web, Anything Can” by Adrienne LaFrance
Digital preservation has always seemed worthy and abstract to me, and I’ve had a hard time caring about it. This story made me care. We are building our house on sand, culturally speaking. –Gabriel Roth, Slate Plus editorial director

And if that’s not enough to read:

• Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg calls Michael Lewis’s Vanity Fair profile of Tom Wolfe “pure delight.” He also enjoyed Neal Ascherson on London’s killing fogs in the London Review of Books.
• News director Allison Benedikt recommends the latest entry in Awl editor John Herrman’s “Content Wars” series, even though “It is not a heartwarming read that reminds you why you became a journalist.”
• Music critic Carl Wilson tweets that the Atlantic’s coverage is “vital context regarding Pitchfork ‘males’ and the deep dynamics of rock versus pop.”
• Future Tense blogger Lily Newman singles out “an interesting but also sort of painful behind-the-scenes look at an Apple design lab from Steven Levy.”
• Columnist Reihan Salam calls ESPN’s profile of James Harden “superb.”
• And international affairs writer Joshua Keating recommends Foreign Policy’s “great take on the importance of Angus Deaton,” winner of the Nobel Prize in economics.