[rufus_foreman]

>> why are there billion(trillion?) dollar corporations built entirely on top of employing millions of people at minimum wage?

There aren't any such corporations. There are under a million people earning the federal minimum wage in the US: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T16OC2.

[ceejayoz]

That's $7.25, to be clear. In 30 states, that's illegally low.

[olddustytrail]

Isn't that entirely because several states have a higher minimum wage than the federal one?

I ask as an outsider and have to wonder why this didn't occur to an American.