Is raising minimum wage nationwide a horrible idea?

[Mr Khan]

Fayceless said:
Stop treating this issue as an issue of individual merit.

One person can get a degree. That person can lean a skill, earn a promotion, or find some other way to become successful.

Millions of people cannot simultaneously pull themselves out of low-wage jobs, because there is a limited number of better jobs available. The job market, as it stands today, favors low-paying work. Fast food is the fastest growing industry in the country. While, if you look at each worker individually, they can often get out of minimum wage, we as a nation are stuck with a lot of low-wage workers for the foreseeable future.

Raising minimum wage won't solve the underlying problems with our economy, but it must be addressed.

This is also important to realize. Everyone can't have the better jobs (and if everyone *could* have the better jobs, the demand would push wages down anyway until the point is moot). The key is to make sure that the floor, at least, is comfortable to live on. Perfect equality doesn't need to enter the equation at all, just as long as the guys on level 1 are happy with their lot in life, who cares how the guys on level 99 are living?