There's a certain assumption that minimum wage advocates have that I don't really connect with. The idea is that of the business having responsibility for makin

There's a certain assumption that minimum wage advocates have that I don't really connect with. The idea is that of the business having responsibility for making sure their employees have a "living wage". Why is it on the business? This seems like such an old-school, patronizing view of the relationship between a business and its employees. It's a business transaction between two parties - nothing more. If we as a society believe that people shouldn't be earning so little money, then fine - we can tax richer people and give the money to people making less. But that's on everyone in the society, not just the specific business owners that just happen to employ these specific workers.