>>938010568Yes but what's the point without a public safety net? It's not actually improving anything, it's just limiting the focus. Besides, happier healthier better educated citizens = more productive workers. And it also helps stifle trade shortages because people won't all be becoming white collar just to pay the bills, own a house, put their kids through school and have healthcare.
If you're still going to treat minimum wage like garbage, then you're still going to have labor shortages because no one wants to work their ass off just to survive.