With all due respect - the concentration of wealth and the minimum wage are completely irrespective of each other. Corporations are able to farm out what used to be decent paying work overseas at a fraction of the cost which boosts profits exponentially and by extension performance and thus bonuses.
This is in no way an excuse for their actions; it's just a fact of life. We now have a glut of uneducated, unmotivated younger adults that at one time could have learned a quazi-skilled trade that would have afforded them a career - nothing glitzy, but a career that would allow them to raise children, and keep a modest roof over their heads until they were pension-elgible and were able to retire.
Plenty of welders, construction & assembly line workers, et al. Earned a living without handouts from the govt.
Those jobs are gone and they ain't coming back.
The quality jobs that are left these days require a level of intelligence, skill, and training and motivation that most of these folks screaming for handouts can't or don't want to achieve.
So just blame it all on the employers of minimum-wage workers - easy targets at least.
Just because some libtard want to believe some ridiculous line of bullspit about how raising the price of a box of mac and cheese by a nickel will magically solve all of these problems, doesn't make it so.
The problems that plague this economy run so deep that we may well never get back to what we previously defined a "prosperous middle class" - But if there are solutions, the path to them will come from addressing the root cause, not some media-charged straw man that incites division.
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