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The minimum wage when it was instituted was designed to represent the minimum wage needed for a single worked to support a family.
Additionally all labor is skilled labor. You either need school or experience to perform a job. I can drop a highly educated neurosurgeon into a restaurant. Without instructions they will fail at the job.
Anyway, all labor deserves a living wage. If you work a full week you should be able to support yourself comfortably.
No, it's not. When people use the term "unskilled" for jobs it doesn't mean "you literally have to have zero skills, not even the ability to user your hands, to do it" - it means you only need a limited skill set and is a job that has minimal economic value. Essentially it's a job that anyone at any stage could walk into and be able to do with minimal training.
That has always been how the skilled/unskilled labor gap has been broken up. You might not like it, but that's what it means. There is nothing about a server's role that makes it a "skilled" job that requires highly specialized skills that someone would have to go and get qualifications and study for. It's taking orders and carrying the orders out to people when someone else, often a skilled laborer like a chef for example, prepares them. Asking for drink orders and if everything is ok with the meal is not "skilled labor".
Agreed 100%. Unfortunately COVID (and everything since, like the "renewable energy" push) and most countries' governments absolutely moronic handling of it has completely destroyed any hopes of this. Getting everyone from minimum wage workers upwards to be able to afford to "live comfortably" requires either a massive, massive recession with 50%+ deflation, or.........well there's really no other way. Maybe a UBI, and I wish more places would trial it, but apart from that there is no real solution that anyone has been able to suggest.
You've bought the lie they've been telling forever. Every person that goes to work is performing skilled labor. The only thing a person can do that doesn't take any skill is being born rich.
Rich assholes that do nothing other than "invest" into a buisness. Every dime made from there is off the backs of working folks. Without our skills the wealthy would be poor.
I haven't bought any lie, I'm telling you the definitions of skilled/unskilled labor that have been in use forever.
Ok so your idea of skill is simply.....not dropping dead. Gotcha.
No matter what you want to think, serving tables is one of the easiest and least-skilled jobs in the world. It's why literal kids do it, it's why it's paid less than minimum wage, and it's why it's a last resort for many of the people who do it. Literally anyone can know how to do it with maybe an hour of training from another server. It's not a "skilled" job. It's a "bare minimum of being able to function in a society" skill level job.
Let me ask you this -do you think that investing is a skill? Choosing what to invest in and when and how much?
I guarantee this person has never waited tables.
I have my doubts on if they've ever worked a job.
So do you think it's not a job that anyone can learn with an hour or 2 training? You think it's a specialized skill?