The Cure Worse than the Disease.

     People are associating being liberal with being nicer and accepting and inclusive, so as a result a huge portion of today's generation are liberals who adopt very leftist views, to a point of socialism. One of the most well known modern socialists is Bernie Sanders who is very ardent with his position of implementing a fifteen dollar minimum wage, which is almost double than it is now. He reasons that it could help people support their families more, but then if that's the case why stop at fifteen? Why can't you raise it to twenty or thirty or even fifty? Because that is when it begins to harm our environment and becomes more of a burden than a benefit? I think just the right amount of minimum wage is ten and a half dollars, Canada's minimum wage. I'll first explain why in a more causal sense but then later in a more economic sense, but as a disclaimer I am not saying I am or am not left wing.
     In regards to how a high minimum wage can help raise the standards of living, there are many accounts of successful careers where the servers are paid a medium wage. I focus on servers because it is the large demographic but also because of tipping culture. Now tipping culture is getting kind of out of hand here in America, to the point where we have started to top baristas who are already getting minimum wage unlike servers, who have no need for it but since it is beginning to be the norm we feel guilty if we don't do it. A good aspect of raising the wage though is that in some no tipping bars in Canada, the tenders have said that they like the consistency of getting paid regardless of a big or slow night, which really helps their families. With the minimum wage they also receive better healthcare and other perks of normal jobs.
     In a broader sense of the economy all minimum wages prevent people from working. If your talents are only worth three to eight dollars yet the job pays you say fifteen dollars, if you lack those extra communication or leadership or attitude skills you can't even qualify for the job. But this goes against the whole inherent purpose of these minimum wage jobs to help the unable, the diseased, the mentally challenged, the cripples, and inserting more and higher level competition with the higher price disregarding the real people in need of help and instead choosing the better people.  Really what most liberals are doing through this raise of wage is appetizes there dignity that someone out there is working as hard as them but just lacks the skills to be paid well so they seek a compensation in the most direct way possible, an increase in wage.
     Liberals, by trying to help a group of people in a direct way hurt them in an indirect way, by comparing those who don't have the skills to a very useful person. But isn't that same value of helping out the needy at the price of the needless supposedly evident in all of the liberal ideals? To help the people who require it before the people who can afford not having it and find use somewhere else? Though these liberals may be trying to help the needy, they are creating more harm them good, and whats worse is that they believe they are doing the just the opposite, the cure worse than the disease.