[brownsfan]

If you’ve been working making $9/hr, you’ve made about $1440/month.

How ticked off would you be if people doing nothing suddenly got 70% of what you got for getting up every day and busting your butt?

I hate these idiots.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Ideally, you would get the government cheque, and then work to top it up. Compared to increasing minimum wage to a “living wage”, it's not a bad idea. Minimum wages could stay low enough to discourage offshoring, or automation, and total incomes would equal or exceed the ‘living wage’. High minimum wages, alone, won't work without permanent tariff protection. Even tariffs won't protect against automation.