6 Important Reasons Not To Raise The Minimum Wage

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1. Minimum-wage workers will keep doing unnecessary work like making food and cleaning
2. Minimum-wage jobs are just meant for teenagers, who don’t have college tuition to pay for or anything like that
3. What all those workers really need to do is become entrepreneurs and hire other low-wage workers instead, even though in that scenario there wouldn’t any workers left for them to hire
4. Raising the minimum wage will hurt businesses by reducing their profit margins from exorbitantly high to just extremely high
   
5. Difficult physical labor doesn’t require the use of buzzwords like “leveraging” and “cloud computing,” so it must not be a real job
   
6. Some very sensitive people feel personally attacked when others can afford food and basic healthcare, so let’s not offend them–it wouldn’t be nice