I made roughly minimum wage in the early-mid 2000âs as a bored teenager in high school and then as a college student part time just looking for some beer money. Absolutely think minimum wage should exist to protect against the race to the bottom of capitalism that would certainly try to drive wages for these kinds of entry level âbasicâ jobs to $0/hr if left to its own devices. That being said these people trying to tout a jump to $15 min wage for these kinds of jobs and pretending like thatâs a livable wage in 2024 are idiots, thatâs a fine min wage for snot nosed high school and college kids working part time for video game/beer money but you arenât living on that anywhere in America today, maybe bum fuck nowhere rural Mississippi or Alabama but thatâs about it.
No I really donât have a better idea so donât ask, my belief is just itâs a good thing to have a min wage floor but donât act like itâs a livable wage unless it actually isâŠ