
Dude, I remember back in the day McDonalds got torn apart for publishing a “budgeting tool” that vastly underestimated cost of living and then still required a second job to make the numbers work out since then cost of living increases have continued to outpace minimum wage I don’t think your numbers check out my guy
As someone who works an entry level job where higher-ups occasionally come to the floor to work with us, the executive cannot do the work at the standards they demand. It should be no wonder when they are doing the equivalent of cognitive offloading but with their entire career. "Creating jobs" is not a real job.
If you require every job to cover all of life’s expenses, a significant amount of entry-level jobs will be eliminated rather than pay more. That leaves people who haven’t yet developed highly valuable skills with fewer opportunities to gain experience and advance their careers. It’s better for the government to help cover basic needs while workers build the skills to earn more.
It’s easy to say what “should” happen, but that doesn’t mean a policy will produce that result. You can’t legislate away supply and demand any more than you can legislate away gravity. Not every full-time job generates enough economic value to survive that mandate, but we can provide basic needs for everyone if we allow the government to fill in the gaps. What you’re proposing has been extensively studied by experts, and they overwhelmingly find it negatively impacts the poor.