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@ TheOneWithAReallyLongName
2025-04-28 09:17:32
Except you can still get fired for doing a shit job. Except employers aren't obligated to hire you. Except you don't get the money if you don't go to work and at least pretend to try. Except you don't even have to be employed.
A minimum wage doesn't guarantee you money. It only mandates that if your employer is happy enough with your output to keep you on staff, they must pay you at least so much. Your employer is totally free to refuse to give you any more work, fire you, and stop paying you. New employers aren't obligated to even hire you in the first place.
It's sort of a right, but only within the confines of a consensual and revocable agreement that nobody is forced to make in the first place. Well, the worker sort of is forced to make the agreement with SOMEone to avoid homelessness and starvation, but the employer is free to decide they're making enough profits. If the labor genuinely doesn't provide enough value, they'll just not hire people. But no matter how much they grumble and cry about it, they keep hiring because turns out you were actually worth it all along.