# Fallout from higher minimum wage **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 25, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-from-higher-minimum-wage/726182 "2015-07-25T20:42:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 116
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-from-higher-minimum-wage/726182/116 "2015-08-15T23:52:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > What do you do with the people at the low end of the curve? They don’t deserve a basic income? Did you ever think they may be working as hard as they can and it’s barely enough to stay afloat? Another poster wrote the following in another thread: > [@Income Inequality: revolution, taxes, or war?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/income-inequality-revolution-taxes-or-war/715573/157): > > 1. What is the minimum standard of living we will accept for the most incompetent, drug addict asshole? It’s all well and good to talk about education and training, but some people just don’t have the wherewithal to do much more than the most rudimentary jobs. Or any job for that matter. Do we just drive them into shanty towns on the outskirts of civilization like you find in places like Calcutta or Sao Paulo? I’ll ask the same about those with physical or intellectual deficits, not that I’m equating everyone here. Assuming the answer to the question is not “let them rot in the gutters,” the next question is what to do. Given that the sets of people making MW and those living in a way we find inadequate overlap poorly, I am leaning more toward other solutions. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-from-higher-minimum-wage/726182)._