If people keep trying to make entry level work that any high school student can do into a career path, those jobs will just go the way of the gas station attendant.
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Dollar store will turn into a giant vending machine drive thru
Before wtf happened in 1971 you could have a house and family on that income.
It's not the INCOME he's talking about but the JOB. It's about the value the job creates. At this point, basically none. Salaries reflect that.
Sad part is they can't even do the job well but have those expectations
Yup.
In a world where we are at liberty to help others for free, it doesn't make any sense to ban voluntary wage agreements.
This is basically saying that working for free is fine, but charging some amount that the market is willing to pay must be illegal.
There is a void then between free labor and the paid labor that the government is *allowing* over a certain threshold.
For freelancers this is an obvious absurdity. Often you are paid by finishing a commission within a deadline. Your hourly pay depends on how fast the work can be done and the client's budget for the project. This process can never be centrally planned; the parameters will differ from person to person and from year to year.
Under a system of government moneyprinting there is no "livable wage". That's the whole point of a 1984-society: that people are dependent on an authoritarian state that redistributes resources based on its ideological preferences, be it classical fascism or fascism with a rainbow theme, where the pig is dressed up with makeup and lipstick.
At the end of the day, a market exchange is the point where two parties agree to a transaction, as Aristotle observed.
Only in a totalitarian society where the government want to regulate and have the power to ban certain exchanges is voluntary exchange a problem.
Add the obvious loss of work for millions of people to automation where the government centrally plans a minimum wage.
Just the surveillance implications alone from minimum wage policies is enough to freighten any person with an inclination to consider the domino effects.
How many times have I had this argument with friends and family these last three decades...
I was already aware of this when I was a teenager myself, and I saw so many of my close ones go down that path, sadly.