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I do have to point out the Hobby Lobby situation.

Here, they pay their starting employees $16 an hour. They have a line of potential employees a mile long. They get the cream of the crop and their employees stick around. They aren’t having people not show up and forced to seek new hires every month or two. The ones who do get in know how good they’ve got it and are loyal to the job.

So let me just rearrange your list here...

Minimum wage = Minimum skillset. Minimum motivation. Minimum education. Minimum attitude.

If you pay people, train them right, and treat them right; you’ll get better motivation and better quality people right off the bat.

You get what you pay for. It’s the same rule with both tools and people.

Now you can’t *force* a company to change their model from quantity to quality. McDonalds delivers cheap food fast. Their business model is cheap and fast. They need cheap and fast workers. You’re not going to turn them into a gourmet restaurant.