Herein lies the issue. The real minimum wage is 0. You can pay people for doing nothing, but if you pay them only if they work, they can choose to not do the

Herein lies the issue. The real minimum wage is 0. You can pay people for doing nothing, but if you pay them only if they work, they can choose to not do the job. If you fire them, then you go back to the real minimum wage being 0. The other option some societies have used in the past is to make it illegal to perform poorly, which has generally led to even worse results than poverty.