They can work somewhere else, until they can't. I'm not saying the minimum wage is a good idea, but hand-waving that "they can just work somewhere else" is ignoring why minimum wage was created in the first place. It was a knee-jerk reaction to a populace being absolutely fucking raped over in labor value.
I'm conservative to the core, I don't like the idea of minimum wage, but doing away with it completely without an alternative to stop the abuse is just returning to a time when the American worker was the equivalent of a slave. If I had my way, I would eliminate the minimum wage and pass a new law that says to pay people what they are worth and stop being a fucking greedy piece of shit, but alas.
Should be zero! Why should the government tell a business what they should pay someone?
depends. unfortunately some people will abuse their power and underpay workers on purpose.
They can work somewhere else, can't they? If people are too weak to walk away from abuse, they deserve what they get.
They can work somewhere else, until they can't. I'm not saying the minimum wage is a good idea, but hand-waving that "they can just work somewhere else" is ignoring why minimum wage was created in the first place. It was a knee-jerk reaction to a populace being absolutely fucking raped over in labor value.
I'm conservative to the core, I don't like the idea of minimum wage, but doing away with it completely without an alternative to stop the abuse is just returning to a time when the American worker was the equivalent of a slave. If I had my way, I would eliminate the minimum wage and pass a new law that says to pay people what they are worth and stop being a fucking greedy piece of shit, but alas.