re: #553 sattv4u2

Friend, I’ve worked for minimum wage and I was damned glad to get it. I also knew if it wasn’t a law I’d have been working for a lot less. I put my way through community college on that minimum wage, which I wouldn’t have been able to do if there had been no minimum.

When there was no minimum wage your job became a trap: you couldn’t afford to leave it and you couldn’t afford to stay. You had to work every hour you could just to pay the rent and eat and had no time or money to better yourself.