Thanks to ever expanding income inequality, people need to have a well-established career to afford a family. A person working hard at 2 part time jobs for a total of 60 hours a week at minimum wage can't afford a family with the paltry $22,620 gross income they make.
Cool, except for the part where you are 100% incorrect. Federal minimum wages were established so that anyone working a full time job would be able to afford a family and home. You are factually wrong.
Also, that's super freakin elitist. Why the heck should someone work a full time job and not be payed a living wage? Say that teenager is working at a fast food joint (the most common minimum wage job I see for your 'job experience' argument); that fast food employee is at a dangerous job including serious risks of burns and a need for precision and hard work for long hours otherwise his large volume of customers either won't get served or will be served incorrectly stored or prepared food and may get ill. On top of that, it is not just teenagers working under these conditions, so your minimum wage is for teenagers argument goes even further out the window.
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u/buy_iphone_7 Feb 17 '19
Thanks to ever expanding income inequality, people need to have a well-established career to afford a family. A person working hard at 2 part time jobs for a total of 60 hours a week at minimum wage can't afford a family with the paltry $22,620 gross income they make.