> We should repeal every minimum wage law, yes. They were created a century ago with racist intentions, their effects are still racist and yet today they are defended as being "anti-racist."

I’d love to see evidence of this. However, I agree the minimum wage laws should be reduced or changed in some circumstances. Previously in our history, you could apprentice and earn almost nothing while you learned a trade. To me, this is much better than paying a school to earn a trade and interning for free.

Also, in economies where there is no minimum wage, you usually see someone start somewhere on the cheap then “shop their skills around” and come back and say “I’m worth X so I’d like to make X or I’ll leave” and quickly they’re earning far more than minimum wage. When there’s a minimum wage, a business always knows they can find someone to fill it. There’s no value in keeping an employee and employees stop bartering for higher wages because they know how easily they can be replaced.

I wish I had a paper or something to link to, so all I have is my own anecdotal evidence seen in my life. Also, I did this as a 16 year old kid and within a year, was making $10 an hour at Wendy’s.