[quote=Turtlicious]
Because then you effect other people?If there are 200 workers, and 100 of them are willing to work for 80 hours a week at 3$ an hour, and 100 who are willing to work 40 hours a week at 6$ an hour, then the company will fire 100 people.Also there is a whole thing with exploitation I really don't want to get into because I have a whole gimmick with my posting where I try not to post more then 5 sentences at any given time.e: Whoa wait what? Don't kill yourself. Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255. If you're seriously considering killing yourself over minimum wage, please call someone who can help.
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So what if someone can not compete with another worker at the same price? What if I grew up in the inner city and got a crappy education, and now I need work experience if I am to go anywhere? Offered a high school student and a college graduate both at the same price who is the company going to hire?

Today black teenage unemployment is 35% and white teenage unemployment is 20%. In 1948 Black teenage unemployment, even when blacks were openly discrimated against, was at 9.8% Congratulations, you have made a very racist law that favors white people. You are keeping young black people down, and for what? So that white people can live comfortably? Boy, doesn't that have a familiar ring.