The reason I’m posting this is for personal clarity and to see what society thinks about it.
What is the purpose of the minimum wage?
If we have a minimum wage, why? What was it implemented for?
Was it meant to be something to use a a platform to scale for skilled jobs and for businesses to benefit from? Or was it implemented to protect the lifestyles of workers as a representation of what is supposed to be the minimum amount of money to earn full time to have an essential minimum lifestyle?
What constitutes a essential minimum lifestyle? Who figured out what value minimum wage should be and what did they base it on?
Why doesn’t minimum wage work as a liquid base, rising with inflation and cost of living?
These are the questions that burn in my brain and why I personally hate that we have a minimum wage. Can someone prove to me it’s value amd also convince me it isn’t used as a weapon against me when searching for a job?
Let’s hear from folks. Vent to me about what you think and what could be done to fix the problem.