There should be no wage controls, period. I started fast food making only $3.15 an hour - but it gave me much-needed customer service and cash handling skills.
Yer jest a young whippersnapper, ain't cha! Fast food paid $1.85 an hour when I started, and I had to walk uphill in the snow to work.
My son graduated this year and was looking for work to keep him busy until he leaves for college in the fall. He'd been trying all year to get on at Dairy Queen, Steak and Shake, local restaurants -- nothing. Then he got a call from Vector Marketing and he started selling Cutco knives. He loves it. He works his tail off from 7:00 AM til 8:00 PM setting up demos and calling contacts to get appointments to show his products.
According to him, the best part is that he updated his Facebook page to read "Employment: Weapons Specialist."