> The labor market is a free market. If you don't agree the employer offer is fair, you don't have to accept. When you find a better offer, you go to the better

> The labor market is a free market. If you don't agree the employer offer is fair, you don't have to accept. When you find a better offer, you go to the better offer. Not everyone has competitive skill sets. People who work at McDonald’s don’t have much of a choice of where they work. Burger King isn’t going to pay them much better. > If you are stuck in a minimum wage job, then this is what the market is paying for your skill set. If you think you worth more, then proof it, don't blame the system. I think what OP was saying is that employers of low-skill workers have a asymmetric power. Because low-skill workers have no where to turn, they are forced to accept low wages and poverty over living in the street, even when their employers can very well afford to pay them more. And because the live in poverty, they cannot afford the time or materials to build skills which lift them out of poverty. We are going to need service workers for the foreseeable future, not everyone can be a fancy software engineer with marketable skills. Covid has certainly demonstrated this. Are we just going to say “tough shit you should have worked for free when you were a teenager” and let a large portion of the population live in poverty when they don’t have to? > I don't know if there is any unpaid internship now or if it is even legal now. They definitely are