>I mean, have you seen how much pay has gone up in low-skilled jobs? …

>I mean, have you seen how much pay has gone up in low-skilled jobs? There are signs at all the local businesses in my area offering $15+ an hour for cashiers and fry cooks and whatnot. The same kind of jobs I worked 7-8 years ago for $8 an hour. They are taking advantage of supply and demand to force jobs to pay them a closer-to-fair wage, instead of selling their time for less than it's worth and perpetuating the problem indefinitely. Those jobs also result in products being more costly, so that the current low end wages are actually lower nominal value. I find people using terms like "fair wage" end up making wishes and policies that end up hurting the poor, not helping them, by not understanding economics. Fair is what a person can command from competing for jobs, and jobs competing for workers. Anything else ends up unsustainable, which usually ends up hurting the least able workers. Mandating wages leads to lower employment - so sure you can help some by pricing others out of work. …