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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I didn't claim the use of low-skill labor was unethical, I said that paying low-skill labor a wage below the cost of living is unethical, particularly since the majority of those prior to and after the minimum wage changes were not teenagers living with their parents.
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The alternative is not paying them more, the alternative is the job not existing.
And that completely removes the concept of on the job skill training. I've worked for free plenty of times in my life and I don't regret it for a second. I paid to go to university and it hardly trained me for a job even though I took a practical degree in Accounting. But for some reason being taught how to do something that can give you a career, you must be paid enough to support a family? It make's no sense to me.
I took a course and did two shoebox bookkeeping clients for free before I was able to get a job. And that was after I spent hours being taught how to use Sage Accounting and had been entering data as a treasurer for years. Took me more than a 100 hours of free training before I was capable to get an almost minimum wage job as a book keeper. Probably took me another 2 months before I hit minimum wage with how slow I was(it was $6.90 at the time I believe, took me two years to break $15). I spent years holding my Dads tools doing exterior repairs for whatever cash he had in his pocket. First time I did a roofing take off, I probably had to do it 5 times. Didn't get paid #### until I could match him within 2%. Got me a roofing job but had to do the first roof for free because I was skinny haha.
By the time I was 20 I never had to worry about working minimum wage ever again. If you don't have good parents, the only thing you have to offer is your services for cheap to get valuable skills. Either that, or back breaking work that hopefully can branch off to something skill based.
So ya, as I said before. My kids will not be following minimum wage laws