A question concerning economics & minimum wage

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Public servants (educators, cops, post office workers, etc) are the people that should get wage increases, not fast food workers. If minimum wage goes up, and the salary of those of us (I'm a teacher) doesn't increase as well, this entire country will collapse. $15 an hour is more than I made as a paraprofessional (which requires 60 credit hours in a school). How motivated will employees be when someone is flipping handburgers for more money than they make?

Minimum wage jobs are intended for high schoolers and young people trying to pay for college. They weren't meant for 45 year old high school drop outs. Now, if those people get those jobs that is fine (I have no issue with them). If they wish they had better jobs then they should try to better themselves and get one or they should have in the first place.

I have no issue with, privately, helping and loving those in need. I have issues with the government forcing businesses to pay someone more money to do a task that requires the brain of a middle schooler than places pay people that have jobs that actually require college credits or a degree.

Our priorities in this country are insane. I mean, a baby sitter could make $20 an hour per kid. I deal with hundreds of high school kids that I'm supposed to observe, keep safe, and teach while they curse, listen to music despite being told not to, get into fights, bring weapons to school, do drugs, do sexual activity on campus, are constantly on their cell phones, and on and on and I make less an hour than someone who sits and watches Netflix with a 4 year old while they take a nap.

By the way, I love my job and I love that I'm in an area where I can try to make an impact on people's lives. I truly do feel like I'm building a rapport with these kids and I hope so much that I can help them in their lives, even if just a little. I'm just saying that we pay tons of people a good amount of money for jobs that require very little skill and those of us that are extremely skilled at our jobs and went to college and worked our buts off (while we make more) it isn't proportional at all if you take $15 an hour into consideration for minimum wage.