That's more of a labor law issue

"On this day in 1938, a federal minimum wage went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Congress initially set the wage at 25 cents an hour"

My market value is zero because I have no skills

If the actual market value of the work is $10 and you were forced to pay them $20, you would also have fewer of those unskilled workers employed

And then, they have no job.

Guess I deserve to starve because profit

Many people who are unskilled get their skills by being employed in the first place.

By eliminating someone's worst option, they do not end better off.

But being employed for 10 cents

Wonderful

They just end up without that option.

Love it

Needed a job

All there was

it's the flooding of the market with infinite unskilled labor from the entire world that cannot be sustained

Love it

Wish I had food on the table

You are just spamming now.

You understand that people were able to sustain themselves before minimum wage, right?

Yeah, but today that would be impossible

Because a minimum wage was implemented

the entire sectors of both low and unskilled labor get flooded and unable to handle the influx of people

So the reason we can't get rid of minimum wage is because we have a minimum wage?

Yes

the addition of a class of people that are exempt from minimal wage (because they aren't citizens) though makes legal hiring of citizens a negative

The problem has existed too long

^

Its not fixable anymore

Systems tend to self-correct

Unless people riot

Or all die

they are doing that anyways

For example, black unemployment in the recession year 1949 of lower than in the most prosperous years of the 60s and 70s.

Minimum wage is a forcible distortion and a misstatement of the value of labor in a market.

of course, social programs alleviated the need to work

If you want to hand someone money, you can do so, but a market distortion is simply that: a distortion.

And your not wrong undead

the 60-70s added a lot of incentives to not work, where the 40s had you need to work to eat

I can agree that your right

My problem with minimum wage is that, genereally speaking, if you set a bar, people will rise exactly to the level of that bar

But just becuase your right about that does not mean we should lose the minimum wage