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Originally Posted by polly
the Chambers Dictionary defines charity as "the donation of goods, money etc to those in need: alms or alms giving:" Not my definition.
If we don't tip, ultimately we 'punish' not the employee but the employer as staff will soon move to other jobs offering better wages or better conditions and the service sector has a large pool of unfilled vacancies so it is not that they can not do so. Ultimately, to survive the employer would have to improve pay and conditions.
So each time you tip you stop the employee obtaining better pay and conditions therefore supporting a corrupt system.
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Nice theory ... so, if I believe that it is disgraceful that food banks are needed in a country as rich as Canada, and that Govt. not local charitable donations should make sure that the poor have enough to eat, I should not donate to food banks. The govt. hearing the pleas of the starving, and the cries of the hungry kids would step in, with the help of big money capitalism, and solve the problem by ensuring a more equitable distribution of the national wealth ... mmmm, let's think about that one.
I would forget about dictionary definitions; The Canadian comedian David Steinberg, after reading that a dictionary defined "bulls**t" as "nonesense", observed that "to define 'bulls**t' as 'nonsense' is bulls**t"