Yes it's totally ridiculous that the government should force businesses (entities making money by using our government, our country, our infrastructure, and our people) to pay a living wage to those who are working, even though when the business doesn't the government just has to come in and subsidize it by paying for food for those people anyway. Just totally ridiculous....
ugh...
He is approaching it from a perspective that two parties should be able to make a wage agreement out of mutual choice without the government being involved. However, this ignores the reality that most people on minimum wage have no choice. It is either minimum wage or no money at all. They are only consenting in the sense that they don't want to starve. With the economy the way it is with surplus labor, and greed the way it is, I am sure some employers would have people working for $1-2/hr if they were not prohibited from doing so. Sure the turnover would be extremely high. But for no skill jobs, why would they care?