All minimum wage has done is make it illegal for millions of people to work.

Your labor isn't worth $20/hr?

Too bad for you, now you depend on the government to live.

When price fixing is mentioned in the context of food, everyone knows that's a bad idea, and yet somehow everyone thinks price fixing human labor is totally fine.

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Correct. Price ceilings create shortages. Price floors create surpluses.

Minimum wage is a price floor on labor. This creates surplus labor, AKA unemployment.

And businesses are incentivized to automate out cheap labor, see McDonalds.

En Venezuela es más triste que 8$ el mes. Pero los precios de comida medicina servicios están elevados debido a la Hiperinflación de un 299% de inflación.

People complain that you can't get a job without experience but you can't get experience without a job. They are unable to make the connection that minimum wage is what prevents them from getting that experience.

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