[KarlInOhio]

In 1960 the minimum wage was $1.00 / hour. If you count the official figures on our continual currency devaluation (i.e. inflation) that would be $7.65 now. So she is saying that productivity of the minimum wage worker has tripled in 50 years? Can a burger flipper flip three times as many burgers? Can a cashier ring up three times as many groceries? Can a government drone stare at your three times as vacantly when you ask him a question? And that doesn't even cover the fact that productivity means you are spending more on equipment. Nope, the worker should get all of the profit from the business owner's investment.

[jazusamo]

Yep...A good many minimum wage workers in fast food joints can’t even make change thanks to our public education system, they have registers that do it for them.