If you make minimum wage you are doing the job a high school kid should be doing.
A high school kid should be in school.
The purpose of a minimum wage is to keep business from exploiting labor. Business has no conscience; it has to be imposed on business by those who do.
Sigh...it has NOTHING to do with "conscience", Carbineer. A free market economy sets the rate for what a job is worth just as a free market sets the price of what a burger is worth.
What people like you seem unable to grasp is that minimum wage jobs are by and large entry level jobs...jobs that people take who don't have marketable job skills or histories. They are not and should not be...jobs that one takes for a life time to support a family. I'm sorry but this notion that because you can't support yourself at a middle class level on an entry level job that it's "unfair" is ludicrous.
And for those of you out there that think The Daily Show is be all and end all for getting your news? If that IS where you're getting your news from then you are one ignorant person!