I’m not sure what that means in any broad sense. But I will say that I think employers and employees should be legally able to negotiate compensation terms as they see fit. If I want to pay some kid $5 to sweep my parking lot, I should be able to do so. Maybe that’s all he wants to do, sweep the lot and be done. Maybe…

I’m not that old, but “back in my day,” people, mostly young adults worked minimum wage jobs like McDonald’s to earn some spending money and to learn what it mean to have a job, to get up, show up, work, etc. It was never meant to be a means of sustaining yourself and I think we’re missing the larger issue that there…

Not goodness of heart at all. We’re keeping them on the payroll because they’re worth what we’re paying them (less than $15/hr). The same reason we keep anyone. And as soon as people are no longer worth what we’re paying them, we’ll have to pay them less. In the case of being worth less than $15, if it’s the legal…

I don’t remember living “comfortably” in NY when I was making 87K, if by comfortably you mean not living in a 300 sqft box.

Good luck living comfortably in LA (unless you’re inland, or in a tiny apt) on $75k.