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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Np here.  You have no idea what the apprentice label means in the trades.  Do a couple hours of research and stop embarrassing yourself.[/quote]

Actually I do know a little about it. My dad is an electrician. He was not an apprentice and has never had an apprentice but has talked about apprenticeships to me several times since I was a kid.

Now that I've proven my blue collar bona fides, can you explain why fast food workers shouldn't make the same thing as an apprentice electrician?[/quote]

Then surely your father knows the requirements to become a journeyman?  [/quote]

DP. The rest of us had to take out loans that we are still paying off to become professionals so maybe pipe down. A 15 dollar an hour summer job would have helped me out a ton while I was working for free.  Ridiculous to begrudge people a living wage because of some misguided fear that they are a threat to you or your profession.[/quote]

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