[central_va]

In your mind, you think it’s perfectly acceptable to tell the owners of this stable that they must pay the guy who mucks the stalls and the guys who toss the bales of hay onto the trailers, and then into the barn lofts, $30k/year each.

The other option is to "muck" it themselves...

[dinodino]

I’m guessing that, despite your name, you’ve never set foot on a working farm—if you had, you’d know why your suggestion is ridiculous. You have absolutely zero concept of running a business of any type. It’s as though your knowledge of economics stopped at the Third Grade.

Crack an economics book if you want to educate yourself. In the meantime, just understand that a minimum wage causes unemployment. That’s all you need to know.