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Originally Posted by
spudea
lets get one thing straight here. People that work for minimum wage are not smart enough to correctly assess their skills and then demand a suitable wage.
This is why factories loved employing small children, they could pay a young boy drastically less than an adult to do the exact same job.
minimum wage may be bad. but it is necessary so companies do not take advantage of the dumb.
If your job can be completed by a young boy then it's time to reassess your life. It's not like minimum wage laws outlaws young boys being employed.
Here's another one of those minimum wage myths that it's there to protect the innocent from being "exploited."
A majority of minimum wage workers are either young persons living in nonpoor families or a second or third earner in a household - not the primary breadwinner.
Read more myths here.