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The minimum wage slowly boils away jobs. If it boils them away too quickly, problems result.

https://www.epionline.org/minimum-wage/minimum-wage-teen-une...

It's why you might have a house full of teenagers now, but the mother has to shoulder the entire economic burden while they play Xbox or cause trouble. Pricing people out of jobs and thereby denying them mentorship opportunities and people skills does not leave them better off.

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Any job that would pay less than minimum is worthless.

You're better off taking that time and putting it into learning something, anything, than to work 8 hours a day for less than $40 in wages. You're essentially asking lower class workers to be unpaid interns when you pay them that low, but there is zero benefit to being an unpaid intern in mcdonalds.

If it's the teenager working at McDonalds, they deserve a reasonable wage just the same as if it were the mother working there. Denying people the right to earn a fair wage just because you imagine they are teenagers doesn't leave them better off. Most of these people are over 25 years of age. It is not 1970 anymore.

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