You're a business owner.
By the way...yes of course minimum wage jobs should not be regarded as careers or capable of supporting families, but what's missing are the bottom two rungs on the ladder where minimum wage can put a tiny 120 s.f. bachelor pad sardine can apartment within one's reach, enough Kraft Mac-Cheese, hot dogs, beans and rice, canned veggies and the occasional hamburger to last the month, and a few gallons of gas for your old jalopy.
For most minimum wage earners these necessities are out of reach the last twenty-some odd years. If they are once again within reach, a miracle happens. Well okay, not really a miracle but a good thing:
The bottom of the underclass begins to CHURN.
People know that they can survive, they apply their ambition and their gray matter to bettering themselves, then comes the day where they gradually lift themselves up a notch, and some other poor schlub takes their former place and does the same thing in due time.
Upward mobility.
Speaking only for myself, I am simply saying that I remember when upward mobility was almost universally understood and expected.
Sure, you have a crappy minimum wage job but don't worry, you're not homeless, you have a roof over your head and things will get better if you apply yourself. If we can somehow bring a little bit of that back, a lot of the problems we're seeing now will gradually lessen a little bit, society will again gradually become a little healthier, and more and more people will begin to live the dream as best they can.
That is what the New Deal was all about. That's why it was such a profoundly positive imprint on our national character and psyche.