[Finny]

If the national minimum wage goes to $15/hr....

... prepare to see a wave of illegal immigration to make what's happening now look mild.

An unskilled Mexican teenager living in a cardboard box home with parents and three siblings would be insane NOT to try to get up to the U.S. and take on a part-time job as a dishwasher. You can bet your bottom dollar that IF that illegal Mexican gets that job, he'll show up every day whereas the entitlement-minded American teen would blow it off if his boss wanted him to work on Prom might.

[Finny]

And furthermore, that Mexican teen would (as I have seen illegal Mexican immigrant friends and co-workers do in the past) live with others in a dirt-cheap apartment and dutifully send $$ to his family in a third-world cardboard box village.

The minimum wage is at the root of many, many evils in America today, including a piss-poor work ethic in American teens.

[jimmyray]

"...whereas the entitlement-minded American teen would blow it off if his boss wanted him to work on Prom might..."

That boss would qualify as a jerk.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Wanting a day off for an important event is “entitlement-minded,” but stealing into a country where you have no right to be and taking a job you have no right to take is acceptable in your world?