If you make $18 an hour you make a penny every 2 seconds. That means half the time you are working you are working for free which is basically slavery.
If there is any second that goes by that you don’t get paid you have worked that time for free.
To my knowledge there is not a single argument that can be made to justify free labor.
Even if you make over $36 an hour guess what. You still make money every second. Which means not a single moment of time at work is free. The base pay should be a penny a second of work time.
This is the first standard of basic living we need to build upon.