[camus2]

except now people work in minimum wage jobs all their life.

> The notion that the minimum wage is supposed to provide a living is a good way to remove young people from the job pool.

The minimum wage is supposed to provide a living period.

How can people be as selfish as you are is beyond me.There is enough wealth in this world to be shared so everybody can make a decent living,and it wont make whatever you think you are worth less valuable.

[icebraining]

Not supporting a particular way of distributing wealth is not necessarily being selfish. There are good arguments for e.g. raisin/expanding the EITC instead.

I don't have an opinion on the matter (not being a US citizen, I certainly don't know enough about the situation), but I think your insult is completely inappropriate.

[protomyth]

"except now people work in minimum wage jobs all their life."

Source please.

"How can people be as selfish as you are is beyond me.There is enough wealth in this world to be shared so everybody can make a decent living,and it wont make whatever you think you are worth less valuable."

Nice try on the appeal to emotion and shame, but the tactic is best left to talking heads on TV and not places where people actually care about this problem. I could respond with your utter indifference to the youth problem particularly it seems in minority communities whose starting businesses cannot afford $15/hr makes you a ..... well you get the idea. This is HN, not MSNBC.

This whole minimum wage foolishness is a cover for politicians that have failed our poor. We need to understand why adults cannot get jobs that employers when jobs go empty. We also need to look at our safety net and see how full of holes it is. Its time for looking at new way to elevate our at risk population (basic income is often discussed here) and education (vocational education to fill the infrastructure jobs that are long vacant and not outsourceble for example).

[PhasmaFelis]

> Source please.

Maybe it's different where you are, but in the Kentucky area I see plenty of people in their 50s and 60s working in fast food, gas stations, and Wal-Marts. Have you really not seen this?

[protomyth]

So, no actual stats.

Further, your solution is basically going to get some of those people fired. How about treating the problem of why those people are working minimum wage jobs instead of glossing over it and making things worse.

[PhasmaFelis]

> So, no actual stats.

I don't need to provide stats to prove that the sky is blue. Use your eyeballs and observe the world around you.

[protomyth]

I haven't seen any change since the 80's and I do wonder how you know those people are making minimum wage?

[PhasmaFelis]

...Because I know that the position they are working pays minimum wage in my area. Are you just trolling now? Some of them may have been around long enough to earn small raises, but nobody in central Kentucky gets $15 an hour to flip burgers or ring up gas or gather shopping carts.