Giving an underpaid employee a large tip is the modern equivalent of giving food scraps to the peasants, to keep them from rising up.

When the average fast food employee makes $8 a hour, and the CEO makes $8 million a year, giving the employee your change to feel better about yourself isn't going to help anyone. It also allows CEOs to justify not paying a living wage because you "tipped" them. This is what a living wage would be for, so stop being lazy about fixing the problem.<br><br>Edit: 1. Stop projecting your own financial situation. Being a broke college student is your choice and your problem. <br><br>2. I care about the minimum wage workers I interact with more than the CEOs I don't know. I would rather change my behavior than give more to the people who already get the majority of the profit. <br><br>3. If you did some research away from Wikipedia and other basic sources, you would see that plenty of companies can afford to pay a living wage, and still many do not.