I mentioned to my dad that my niece is going to babysit my daughter tomorrow so I can go to a local food project planning event. I said that I pay $15 / hour, because when I was a teenager my older siblings had me babysitting for slave wages. (At one point, 6 kids under 7, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, for $150 + room and board)
So he drops this nugget on me.
Excuse me, that's actually minimum wage in this state. I outright laughed and asked him if he thought that me paying one person on a rare occasion minimum wage to care for my child would really… REALLY? THAT WOULD BREAK THE ECONOMY. YES. YOU HAVE SOLVED THE ECONOMIC CRISIS.
I could tell he was getting really uncomfortable so I ended the conversation pretty quickly.