If you argue “supply and demand,” well you got one piece of the puzzle, but ask yourself who’s the demand? Who‘s really setting the labor price here? Cause it ain’t the “unskilled” supply https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/06/why-do-so-many-essential-workers-get-paid-so-little-heres-what-economists-have-say/
@ilovecomputers Agreed comrade!
@ilovecomputers are you sure that it isn't because there is more labour supply than the demand?
@ilovecomputers you'd think the whole essential bit would necessarily imply a pretty serious demand eh? 
@comfcat that's the water-diamond paradox right there https://www.npr.org/transcripts/632483606
'merica shouldn't just set a new federal minimum wage. It should set one based on inflation and local cost of living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M3vTvm2cfM