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Originally Posted by Parallex
Work is work. You shouldn't get paid less to do the same job based strictly on age and what you do with the money (be it rent/tuition/spending) should be irrelevant... you get paid for the job you do not for what you do with the money after you earn it.
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At a lower minumum wage, whole new jobs are created that simply don't make sense when paying someone more.
For example: restaurants cannot afford to pay a dishwasher $15/hr. Instead, they may ask prep cooks making $15/hr to also help washing dishes and as a result drop speed of service or cut items from recipe's to save time. At $12/hr a full time dishwasher may make more sense, thereby creating a whole new full or part time job and also allowing increase in service levels.
It's not about paying people less to do the same job, it's about CREATING jobs for people willing or deserving of less pay.