Comment Re:Crazy (Score 1) 778
Free market capitalist system does not reward companies for maiming people, [...]
It does if there's money in it. Or, at least, it would if it wasn't already illegal.
[...] governments on the other hand force you to participate, if you do not like it, you can always opt out to go to jail for tax evasion.
Or not earn enough to be taxed. Or leave the country.
Setting up minimum wage destroys opportunities for people with no skill sets, that's all it does, it doesn't provide anybody with "decent living" and it shouldn't.
Yes, it should. That's the whole reason it exists.
A minimum wage job shouldn't require any skills. It should be the going rate for unskilled, inexperienced, basic labour.
If it's not, it's not because the minimum wage is too low, it's because the business model is broken.
Decent living is provided by better jobs, but you have to find those better jobs in the first place and if you can never get a job to improve your skills, a low wage paying job, you are much less likely to find the next job that actually pays much more than a minimum wage does anyway.
What skills will someone learn in an unskilled below-minimum wage job, that will help them get a similarly unskilled, but marginally better paid, slightly-above-minimum wage job ?