| Comment | In the first case, I'm trusting the restaurant to split those tips between all the staff, which I'm pretty sure most places do.
In the second case, I make choices as a consumer that attempt to replicate that - I'm not buying any clothes from sweat shops in Asia, I look to living wage employers for services, and so forth.
Even, however, if in both cases you were completely right and it isn't possible to distribute wealth in a perfect manner, it's still better to do so to a limited and biased extent than to not do it at all. A chef not receiving a tip is not a valid reason not to tip a waiter, just as it not being possible to make ethical consumption choices in every case doesn't mean I should never make an ethical consumption choice when I can.
You do you; I'm just explaining what I do, which as I stated is predicated on being able to afford to do so. |
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