&gt;  because fuck people with limited mental capacity is sick.<p>Handing people more money for nothing does not solve their problems in the long term. If anything, 78 years of minimum wage has definitively proven this.<p>When inflation goes up, as it does, they&#x27;ll all be right where they are today. Why solve today what you can solve tomorrow? Now, that&#x27;s truly sick.<p>&gt; we have very different problems now vs 78 years ago<p>We don&#x27;t have different problems. Minimum wage was implemented to help prevent folks from working all day only to not be capable of affording life... this is exactly what we&#x27;re debating today. So, 78 years later, we still haven&#x27;t solved this issue...<p>&gt; People have been working harder<p>Have they? Working harder today is a different notion than working harder in 1938. Today, we require education and highly skilled workers. Yet, we have a major shortage of exactly that. Why is this? Well, many reasons, but among them is our societal indifference to encouraging or mandating folks get high skilled training or a higher education. There&#x27;s a big push today exactly against folks getting education and&#x2F;or high skilled training, and you seem to be arguing this as well.<p>More money is a short term solution. It doesn&#x27;t solve anything long term. It hasn&#x27;t worked for 78 years, and it won&#x27;t work for another 78 years. To use your words... &quot;To pretend otherwise is to simply act the fool&quot;.