Quote: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.

wrong! minimum wage was created to afford american citizens a fair wage when employers were paying jack crap to workers and keeping the most money to themselves...this was wayyyy back when so I can understand why you don't know... again, some people don't have the education to move up past minimum wage and in some locations there are few jobs that pay more than minimum wage...where I live, the majority of jobs are retail jobs so minimum wage and slightly above are the norm...I make way over minimum wage, but only through experience and education...once again I say you are speaking with not only arrogance, but also ignorance to the people who make minimum wage...It's easy to say that people who can't make more than minimum wage have a problem, but it's pure arrogance to blame the entire minimum wage workforce themselves for their pay...and the point STILL remains, that people living on minimum wage don't have the means to save 10% of their weekly pay

 

most people who settle into a minimum wage job get raises so they go over minimum wage, but the unskilled workers are always going to have lower pay than skilled workers...But minimum wage isn't enough for a grown person to live on and it should be, that is the way it was designed to be when minimum wage was created way back before your time

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