Not sure why they use minimum wage as a measuring stick of fairness. Minimum wage work doesnt earn you a life. It earns you a mom's basement. It requires no education or training or even effort. It is meant for 17 year olds, 70 year olds, and retards

Try construction work as "unskilled laborer", for $13 bucks an hour on average, it'll bring your definition of "no effort" to a fucking new level I guarantee you that. https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=4260f9e48f18e063&tk=1fc1ao3gcs9va800&from=serp&vjs=3

A craftsman with marginal skill and experience in the areas of carpentry, and concrete. The laborer will generally have a smaller tool inventory and may need direction to perform more advanced tasks.

Handles, stacks, and move formwork and materials. Keep jobsite clean and orderly by cleaning and stacking materials not in use. Perform shoveling, raking, and demolition work as required. Assist others during concrete placements, traffic control, and prefabrication tasks. Able to work and assist others to work in a safe manner within the guidelines of the company’s policies. Any other task assigned by supervisor.

Just grab that shovel, you'll see it's easy...

This completely ignores the dilution of the labor pool with immigration, and the inflation of the currency. Minimum wage used to be perfectly fine. Part time employment used to be viable. So yes minimum wage without government subsidies should be the measure of fairness.

Fuck, Im not 70, there are no basements in Texas. Damnit! Im a retard!

It's all by design though, right? Is it enough to buy a land? No. Is it enough to buy a house or a decent non-used car? No. But is it enough to afford drugs and consumerist bullshit in order to distract yourself? Yes!

Because the sheep do not think for themselves. When you break them down enough, only then will they admit that they want a comfortable brain dead job like retail but will pay them enough to live independently. It is yet another sign of how soft they are.

Minimum wage jobs are intended to be transitional jobs performed by persons working to better their position. The only people intended to earn a living by working at McDonald's are managers and owners, positions which require persons who can offer valuable skills for business and personnel management. If you are so dumb and untrained such that flipping a burger is the only thing you can do I feel sorry for you if your background allowed you no better education. But if you were one of these fucking entitled morons afforded the same quality public education as was I and you squandered it playing hoop ball knowing you are going to be the next LeBron James or some such shit then I have no pity for you. Live in poverty as the consequence of your poor choices and may your life be a lesson to those around you.

Singapore has no minimum wage and has one of the highest standards of living and economic freedom in the world all basically on a rock with no real natural resources.

This is why they’re destroying education. Someone with Down’s in the 80s has the same IQ as the average high school grad of tomorrow.

honestly speaking it didnt used to buy so little but thats the nature of inflation it slowly robs the people of their purchasing power. the minimum wage if it was based of the gold standard would be ~$25/hr