[ricks_place]

Raise the minimum wage and many entry level jobs are simply eliminated. Raise minimum wage high enough and maybe there’s no reason for a worker to move up the skilled work scale. If a janitor pays as much as a machinist, then there is no financial incentive to develop skills. I’ve done both jobs!

[LearsFool]

Raise the minimum wage and many entry level jobs are simply eliminated.

Precisely!

It's my suspicion that minimum wage hikes are driven by nothing less than racism:

Young black men are undereducated and underskilled. They therefore need the lowest of entry level jobs in order to even enter the workforce, where they would: gain skills, learn responsible behavior required of men, earn self-respect and the respect of others (particularly women), begin the climb out of poverty, and progress toward being able to support a family. Absent this course of life, we can expect young men - of any race - to become renegades and rogues.

If I wanted to keep the black race dependent and "at heel" as an underclass, I can think of no better place to begin than by ensuring young black men are priced out of the job market.

[PapaBear3625]

Raise the minimum wage and many entry level jobs are simply eliminated.

Perhaps not immediately, but certainly over the long term. Employers are always having to decide between hiring a new person, or buying a piece of labor-saving equipment which will allow them to do more work with the same people. And if they raise their prices, then consumers will tend to buy less of what they're selling, which also reduces the incentive to hire more people.