[quote=CA renter][quote=sdduuuude][quote=CA renter][quote=sdduuuude]Set the minimum wage to $0.00 and the country would re-learn what work is.[/quote]

And rioting, and high crime, and starvation, and sickness, and social decay…[/quote]

we cannot afford to have our wages drop.[/quote]

Eliminating or reducing the minimum wage doesn’t necesarily drop wages. It opens up more jobs at lower wages. There is a big difference.

Having a minimum wage doesn’t affect the value of the work we can do. It simply makes it economically infeasible for legitimate businesses to hire people who can’t do a job that is not worth more than min wage. So, those poeople don’t work. Or they go on welfare. It’s a system designed to waste taxpayers’ money.

It’s like saying “lets make the ‘minimum price’ for hot dogs $15. Would the price of hot dogs go up? No. People would stop selling them because nobody would buy them. The value of a hot dog is what it is. Setting a min price doesn’t change that and results in fewer sales.

If min wage is so useful, why not set it at $100/hr ? Then we’d all be rich !!!! Oh. I see. There is an “optimal” minimum wage you say? How does one determine the optimal value for a minimum wage? Ah. We rely on the brillian economists that didn’t see any of the current mess coming. That’s how

It’s just absurd that someone thinks they can pull a minimum wage value out of their ass, thinking they can actually help the economy. It is one of the stupidist economic decisions ever made.