[inviromentalist]

I used to have this mentality until I tried hiring minimum wage workers.

Minimum wage workers are extremely low quality. They have 0 skills and require education on everything. Sure Engineers need to learn too, but there's a gigantic difference.

Minimum wage workers are hard to find. Most people won't work for that little, so turnover is high.

Minimum wage workers don't care. They know they can find another job easily.

I was forced into paying 15$/hr for data collection as a result.

[aspaceman]

You have to pay for quality work. If you pay the minimum you get the minimum quality of work.

[falcor84]

Yeah, that actually makes perfect sense. I suppose you could say that when a state sets a minimum wage, it creates a new 'zero' level for productivity, and then companies need to pay 'x' above that to compete for productive employees. If it indeed works that way, then that's policy as intended, right?