Minimum wage increase

[Ronin13]

Raising the minimum wage is stupid. Minimum wage in and of itself is stupid and violates employers rights to pay commensurate to worth of labor. It's silly to raise it to some arbitrary number when the last estimate I could find shows only 2.9% of the working population (that's reported income) earns minimum wage. Minimum wage was never meant to support a family, it was meant for entry level/unskilled labor. In reality, if you're earning minimum wage you shouldn't be for long, and if you are after a long period of time you either A) are not a good worker, or B) need to find a new job.

[bryjcom]

Raising the minimum wage is stupid. Minimum wage in and of itself is stupid and violates employers rights to pay commensurate to worth of labor. It's silly to raise it to some arbitrary number when the last estimate I could find shows only 2.9% of the working population (that's reported income) earns minimum wage. Minimum wage was never meant to support a family, it was meant for entry level/unskilled labor. In reality, if you're earning minimum wage you shouldn't be for long, and if you are after a long period of time you either A) are not a good worker, or B) need to find a new job.

It also violates the workers right to accept lower pay. There are people that have little or no marketable skills that are unable to get a job due to them literally not being worth $10+ and hour. Now they're stuck with out a job to learn marketable skills because they are literally forbidden to work for less than mandated pay.

Minimum wage jobs are for entry level work forces that NEED the opportunity to learn new skills. But try explaining that to a progressive....

[BladesNBarrels]

It also violates the workers right to accept lower pay. There are people that have little or no marketable skills that are unable to get a job due to them literally not being worth $10+ and hour. Now they're stuck with out a job to learn marketable skills because they are literally forbidden to work for less than mandated pay.

Minimum wage jobs are for entry level work forces that NEED the opportunity to learn new skills. But try explaining that to a progressive....

Ah yes, that is why the "intern" was invented.
Slave labor with no pay and can be asked to do anything.

[bryjcom]

Ah yes, that is why the "intern" was invented.
Slave labor with no pay and can be asked to do anything.

As long as consent is involved....

[Gman]

Ah yes, that is why the "intern" was invented.
Slave labor with no pay and can be asked to do anything.

Interns at the evil corporation where I work are paid and they get put up in long-stay hotels when they're from another part of the country.