Minimum Wage Laws: Helping Politicians, Not the Poor

Everyone loves to talk about how minimum wage laws are supposed to lift people out of poverty—but let’s get real, dudes. All these laws really do is make politicians look good while the poor get left behind… again.

Here’s the deal: when the government forces businesses to pay more than a job is worth, guess who wins? The lucky few who keep their jobs. The rest? Laid off, replaced by robots, or never hired at all. Politicians get to brag about “fighting for the little guy” while quietly ignoring the people they just shoved out of work.

It’s classic virtue signaling wrapped in economic nonsense. If we actually cared about helping the poor, we’d let people negotiate their own pay and create more jobs—not fewer. But hey, that wouldn’t make for a flashy campaign speech, would it?

No sugarcoating. No economic fairy tales. Just the liberty-minded perspective on why minimum wage laws hurt the people they claim to help—and who’s really cashing in.

Time to wake up, man.