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In this chain of money changing hands, only you have a real moral choice. If your employer didn't hire you and instead gave the $10 to aid, then it wouldn't have had a service or produce to sell and therefore wouldn't have gotten that $10 in the first place. Similarly for LatteShop.
But if you didn't buy a latte, you would still have gotten the $10.
Presumably by providing goods or services to other people who chose not to give their money to aid.