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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP, but I was also thinking about this in regard to a proposed $15 minimum wage. A lot of people with degrees and experience are making between $40-50K. Why should they make that little when you can make 30K with zero experience? [/quote]

Because the kind of jobs that pay minimum wage are usually hard work, and often unpleasant.  If you'd rather scrub toilets or work retail than whatever you can do with your degree and/or experience, go for it!

Also, many minimum wage jobs DO require skills.  And they are often quite necessary to the functioning of our economy, and society in general.  All those people we were just valorizing as "essential workers," and suddenly they don't deserve a living wage?

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not to mention they are rarely full time, so they require stringing together multiple jobs to get full time hours (but no benefits because you're just a part time employee with multiple employers). I seriously doubt anyone is going to quit a salaried job in academia to work retail at a couple of jobs and do grub hub deliveries when you don't get enough hours [/quote]

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