No, minimum wage is not a career goal. But when everyone with these career goals have reached the top of the corporate ladder, or whatever rung just underneath they can get a grab at, who do you think will be flipping burgers at the fast food joint everyone stops at when they're running late for a meeting? Who will cook and serve for you at your favorite restaurants, take your tickets at the movie theater? Or fill the thousands of other minimum wage jobs required for society to run the way it does? There will always be a need for minimum wage positions, regardless of the career goals of individuals. And those filling those roles deserve to have a living wage, the same as anyone. The current minimum is not a living wage, which is what it is supposed to be.