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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Incentivizes under the table payments, and illegal immigration.

Deincentivizes skilled trades,  [b]an apprentice electrician shouldn't be paid the same as a fast food worker.[/b][/quote]

Why not? Both are unskilled labor. 
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One could argue that since the apprentice requires direct supervision, they should be paid less. Other professions don’t pay their interns at all.[/quote]

Shows you know nothing about the trades. An apprentice is not an intern. 
Also maybe it’s not so cool that some interns are paid nothing, because the system favors only relatively well-off young people being able to do internships. 
I never could have afforded to work for free. Unpaid interns are getting subsidized by their parents. [/quote]

So to get back to your original point...why shouldn't an apprentice electrician be paid the same as a fast food worker?[/quote]

I'm the original poster. I'm guessing you don't interact much with people in the skilled trades. As an engineer I most certainly do.

They have far more education for one thing.  You get around 150 hours of classroom training each year (4 weeks), plus 2000 hours of on the job training, by doing the work for a period of about 5 years.  You also have to have passed the electrical trades aptitude test to even start as an apprentice, which requires being able to do algebra and functions.  Considering you can flip burgers at age 14 with working papers, this is a higher requirement than most professions.

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