So I have a brother in law who's a zero gen Mexican who immigrated to California in the 90s, he came to visit and now he's talking politics: he's insistent on saying that people can 'make' it on minimum wage (he's telling my mother in law, "con el mínimo la haces, amá"). I understand that he's saying this because he found a better life in the US, but from what I've seen and experienced myself, it can't be true. Can someone write up a counterargument that won't hurt his fifis?
I mean sure. We can all strip down to a mattress on the floor, blankets and a propane stove. But why should we have to do that while billionaires take private helicopters to meetings? It's not as if he is generating any more productive value from that transaction than I am. It's not as if there isn't enough to go around where I don't actually have to do that. That's the whole point of generating these industrial practices, to make it easier to make goods and services available to the masses. If they can't even purchase what they make, why are we even making it?