This debate is going to boil down to, who do you believe is responsible for your personal choices in life. You or somebody/something else?
Look, if individuals don’t have enough wear withal to recognize that they’re in a dead end career or a job with no opportunity to make a decent wage, raise a family and put a roof over their head; whose fault is that?
Yearly statistics for cost of housing, medical care, and raising a child, etc, are published. They have been available for decades. You wouldn’t think that anybody would even attempt to raise children on minimum wage. But that’s clearly not the case!
Now you want to jack the wages for menial workers at the expense of skilled workers? What will that accomplish? The menial worker is always going to be on the bottom of the distribution. Fiddling with the minimum wage is a feel good maneuver, a stunt, a simple attempt at influencing the weak minded for political gain.
We all know what median means, it’s the individuals choice to decide where he or she wants to be on that curve!
You can’t live on the minimum wage; improve your skill set so you can live better.
What’s you’re thought ... everybody who’s made bad choices should have somebody reward them for being stupid, at the expense of others losing an opportunity?
Come on, that’s nonsense and you know it.
