No one is forcing anyone to take those minimum wage jobs.
Point taken. But to many, what is the alternative?
Which begs the question of why there's even a minimum wage in the first place. I envision a truly great America where the marketplace sets the wage -- not the government. Watch our blessed country come roaring back to its rightful place as the dominant economic force if the socialist minimum wage is abolished!
Of course, right to work ought to be the law everywhere just as it is in Texas and other states where freedom and liberty are cherished.
In a sense, minimum wage laws result in employers having to pay their less qualified people more than they're worth.
To offset that, employers can only afford to pay minimum wage to their higher quality employees.
These higher quality employees would probably earn more if the employer were free to determine the value of the employee, rather than the government.
And the minimum wage jobs wouldn't exist if they weren't supporting higher wage earners.