Just to make sure that the point the freemarketeers want to hide is not being missed here. Ricardo - the economist who developed the theory of comparative advantage, he also presented the "iron law of wages," according to which wages tend to stabilize around the subsistence level.
Freetraders hide this point because they want to be in the rank of the owners who will be benefiting from the freemarket.
If you aren't a "freetrader", whatever that is, and apparently you don't care for socialism, then what? Just what do you call an economic theory where an employer is forced to provide unskilled workers what ever income level will make them comfortable? Do you believe the "poverty line" is a meaningful, objective number?