I believe that a business owner has a moral obligation to pay their employees (that make them all of their monies) high enough where the employee doesn't become a burden on society.
So if somebody is a burden on society, it's the employers fault and not the individual that is working for that employer?
That's like saying it's the banks fault for getting robbed because the bank had a lot of money and the robber had little.
If we make everybody's life better by forcing industry to overpay a worker, how do you expect the worker to ever want to better themselves?
My first full-time job was at a car wash. It was an idiots job. I took money from customers, put them on the line, and hit a button to send the car through the wash.
Imagine if back then, we did things the way liberals want to do it now! I may have spent my life at that car wash, or wasted a lot of my life working there until I finally decided to do something better with my time on this earth.
Minimum wage employees in our country make up about 3% of our workforce. You are not going to have wage disparity because of that 3%. And within a years time, most of those in that 3% end up making more than minimum wage. So your logic is flawed.