I oppose the idea of any minimum wage at all and I have worked at minimum wage at several points in my life. I once washed dishes at an uner-the-table very sub minimum wage + two meals. That got me situated in Galveston. It gave me space to look farther afield. Two weeks later I was working at a little higher than minimum washing more dishes on the Seawall which job I could not have gotten had I not already been washing dishes at the dive before. From there in two more weeks I went to the Thom McCan shoe store where I did rather well. With minimum wage required (in reality rather than legality) I might well not have got that first job and then not the subsequent jobs.
Thom McCan store! Holy smokes there arthurs, you’re dating yourself. Well not literally. Back around ‘70, I dug post holes with a post hole tool where for every chunk that I pulled out, 75% caved back in for $1.25/hr. Good times. :>}