Quote:actually that is incorrect...minimum wage was designed to be a wage suitable to maintain a healthy and suitable lifestyle...through the years/decades, it has evolved into what you stated, but in it's infancy the intent was to create a wage where people could support themselves without having to depend on state welfare...you young-uns crack me up thinking you know everything and don't really know [BAD WORD REMOVED] about anything

 

Nope.  Minimum wage was created in this country as a tool for politicians.  It's part of the whole class warfare rhetoric.  A job has worth to a business and that business isn't going to pay anything more than the job's worth.

 

What exactly is a minimum wage job?  Someone who washes dishes in a restaurant?  Someone working at a fast food place?  What do jobs such as these have in common?  They require little to no skill to do.  Anyone with less than a high school education can do these jobs.  These kinds of jobs were typically held by high school or college students as an extra means of earning some cash.

 

I personally got my first (and only) minimum wage job at the age of 16.  I stayed at that wage exactly 90 days.  Even at that age with my lack of education/experience I was able to move up.

 

Somewhat as I said earlier, anyone over the age of 20 that can't get gainfully employed earning more than minimum wage has a problem.

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