Is raising minimum wage nationwide a horrible idea?

[BMaker11]

krafty89 said:

spurgeonryan said:

Pretty much every state is talking about raising the minimum wage right now. Then what! Prices will just go up. You cannot expect to get a ton of money for doing minimum wage jobs. It is not businesses fault that you did not go to college, did not work hard, had kids, etc.

BMaker11 13 minutes ago

Nobody said people working minimum wage was "lazy", just that the job they're doing that take no skills to accomplish shouldn't be overly compensated.

I think you neglected to read the OP and countless other posts.

You can make your own conclusions from that.

 

Well, I know I wasn't saying that. But I also infer that "work hard" means making yourself more attractive to employers by increasing your skillset, in which case it would be true that many people working minimum wage "did not work hard". But in the sense of putting in 40 hours or more a week, no one in their right mind would call that lazy or not literally working hard. Working is working, no matter what you do. But if I ever say "work hard", I mean expanding your skills in order to obtain a better job. Learning a craft, a program, a trade, etc. instead of flipping burgers. I call that "hard work", in the context of the posts I've been making in this thread