Agreed. Lowering the minimum wage may help workers to secure longer hours and higher monthly wages. We really should be discussing a maximum wage for unskilled labor - for their own good, of course.
Personally, I tested ap1.2 about 1.3 years on a similar frontage road and a freeway. The ping pong and slerpaderp were equally as annoying and vastly inferior to the lane merging edge cases and simultaneous ferg jamming. Nothing like the grandparent poster claims - anecdotally, of course.