&gt;So, industrialists definitely would benefit from a minimum wage JG force.<p>That must be why they throw a torrent of lobbying dollars at think tanks that say that raising the minimum wage will cause the sky to fall.<p>&gt;The purpose of the New Deal was not empowerment, but emergency restructuring.<p>You must have a different definition of &quot;relief for the poor&quot; than the rest of us.<p>&gt;There weren&#x27;t any McJobs in the 30s<p>Believe it or not, cooking was actually a thing in the 30s too, and it was, likewise, one of the lowest wage jobs out there (~35 cents an hour avg wage).