> Perhaps, but is minimum wage actually a living wage?

What is a 'living wage'?

> just because someone is employed doesn't mean that they are in a good position.

They certainly are in a better position than somebody who is unemployed.

As Thomas Sowell pointed out: The real minimum wage is always zero: unemployment.

All the minimum wage does is distort the labour market to favour automation and highly skilled workers over the inexperienced and low skilled.

Basically, it hurts precisely the people it was supposed to help.