The problem is that minimum wage is required under the current federal reserve system.
In order to get rid of minimum wage, we have to get rid of the federal reserve and return to currency standards that are not nearly as easy to manipulate (ultimately - any time you hand money to someone and then use their notes of holdings as bartering trade - then the currency can be manipulated - but not to the suicidal degree we are seeing with the federal reserve).
Of course - what also has to go away is the dependency upon employment.
Which means income and property taxes must go away. The tax system needs to be simple enough for the average person, with minimal overhead, to market his/her trades and abilities - whether under an employment contract or as a free tradesman/artisan/etc.
Currently, Americans are too focused on the idea of 'getting a job.' A man will sit in his house with a computer, tool boxes, printers, etc on unemployment while looking for permission from another set of people to begin doing something in exchange for money. We have gotten away from the idea that one can simply pick up tools, go outside, find things that can be done and ask people if they would agree to have the service done for an agreeable amount of money in exchange.
It used to be that you didn't have to pay tax on your land or home (many states didn't have property taxes, initially). The process of walking to someone's home, knocking on the door, and insisting that they owe you money came with a high probability of conflict resulting in lethal action. So it just wasn't done.
So the 'cost of living' was considerably lower, since you weren't having to fork over half of your stated income to taxes and then keep the sheriff from putting a lock on your door because you didn't pay the people he works for (that same model of operation is mirrored by crime syndicates - the only difference is that crime syndicates are rivals to the established system of extortion).
You owned your own land, and if worse came to worse - you just had to make sure that you could plant enough food to keep you going through the winter (though modern urbanization has rendered a good portion of this notion a bit moot - by that same token, where there are people, there are services that those people need done - jobs take care of themselves).
You could effectively survive off of bartering services and what you could produce at home.
While we have electrical and communication services to consider (that weren't there 'back in the day') - these are not essential to survival (with a properly built home, rather than this slap-it-together bullshit stapling they do today), but can be afforded on plausible bartering incomes where one trades odd-jobs for costs of transportation and expenses like electricity and internet/phones (even phones are becoming close to free - with some companies exploring the idea of advertising supported phone services - the target being 'cheapskates' - not the truthfully poor; those who scrimp for the sake of scrimping yet have the money to spend on movie tickets and other 'weaknesses' that good advertising can capitalize on).
The entire system has been engineered to make people feel as if they are always renting their existence and that is why they so easily fall for the minimum wage argument. This is especially true once the inflationary effects of the Federal Reserve kick in and begin to steadily increase the costs of living.
One can apply simple logic to the minimum wage fallacy to destroy it. If minimum wage was a good idea and helped to eliminate poverty - then why tolerate income inequality in the first place? Minimum wage five million dollars a year salary and watch the prosperity roll in.
Of course that's ridiculous.
But if we can raise it to $15 - why stop there? Why not $30 - because we'll only be looking to increase it in another two years at current inflation rates (which are increasing - we are going to enter hyper inflation, most likely, following the next market collapse). And if $30 is good - $60 will be even better.
Which is why it will be a good thing when this all collapses.
It will be painful and come with much strife - but in the end, it is a necessary and natural process to undergo.
The problem is that we are most likely to rebound into a communist totalitarian state the way we are going - which is likely what I will fight and die against.
