Minimum wage should be considered a “first job wage” for teenagers working part-time over the summer break. If wages had kept pace with productivity instead of flatlining during the Reagan Revolution the minimum wage would be 23 dollars an hour. That would be what teenagers working over the summer would get.
The best places to live on planet Earth, by almost every measure, are those with the “Nordic Model” as their way of life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model
We are failing. By every measure. Capitalist Scott Galloway says we can fix it all. Can we? Stupidity killed the dinosaurs, and it looks very likely that greed will end our species.
Ice on the Moon 