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I think you are missing the point.
Conservatives generally argue that increasing the minimum wage shifts jobs from younger workers to more mature workers, because if employers are going to have to pay a decent wage, they prefer to have more mature workers that possibly require less training and less babysitting. Economic history supports this point of view.
Someone was arguing that our jobs have shifted away from the middle ages adult and towards the young and older Americans (although someone later succesfully refuted that claim), and they were complaining about that. So I suggested that a possible "fix" for jobs moving away from middle aged folks would be to increase the minimum wage, which has been proven to shift jobs away from younger folks toward middle age folks.
In otherwords, maybe the fact that min wage hasn't kept up with inflation for at least 5 years, explains or partially explains why jobs have shifted towards younger people and people close to retirement age (if that has happened at all, it's debateable).
No, I understand the point. The point was that there are mcjobs, and your solution is increase minimum wage. That is a bandaid, not a solution to poor job creation.