Quote Originally Posted by roberth View Post
Minimum wage is part of the command economy, the government is the last entity that should determine how much someone should be paid for a task. The employer should make that determination and if no one will that the job at the offered rate the employer will have to increase the compensation.
Bingo.

I will also add that when I was 16, I worked at a Pizza Hut for 9 months. NOBODY in that place deserved $15 an hour. In fact, the only place(s) I've ever worked that were deserving of that kind of money were auto shops where the guys who weren't certified techs (and thusly didn't get flat rate jobs) still had to bust their asses to get light jobs in and out.