Below is a reply I made to someone who claimed that getting rid of the minimum wage would result in a race towards the bottom. Meaning without minimum wage, businesses would drive wages to the ground, leaving a wake of former minimum wage workers unemployed or underpaid.
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Unemployment laws discriminate against unskilled workers. The failing educational system in the inner cities result in uneducated youth, who grow up with no means to gain any real experience or skills. Minimum wage destroys the only thing many minorities have left, their ability to work and make a better life for themselves. They are unable to obtain much needed jobs at any wage which would allow them to move onto better paying jobs.