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I've seen plenty of job posts in the US with PTO. It works the same as having a minimum wage and other workers' rights.

Minimum wage hurts the least skilled the most and makes them unemployable. There is no empirical need for the minimum wage as almost no one earns it.

If the minimum wage is low enough that nobody gets paid it how can it still hurt the least skilled workers? Aren't your two statements contradictory?

It removes the bottom rung of the ladder, it's a temporary stage.

What are you smoking? A minimum wage puts a floor on what is needed to have an employee. Paying less than that is even worse than we have it now.

Where do you live that doesn't have fast food, restaurants, retail, and so on? Most of these 'skilless' jobs are minumum wage. You are advocating for entire sectors of people to be paid less (i.e. exploited further) based on the false notion that few people are paid minimum.

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