[quote] You get paid according to your worth in productivity. [/quote] You get paid what someone is willing to pay you. Increasing minimum wage increases that number for some people, but makes that number zero for others.

[quote]You get paid according to your worth in productivity. When you have a minimum wage you distort all this.[/quote] You get paid as little as your employer can get away with paying you, generally. In cases where there's high unemployment and low unionism (like, say, the United States), that amount's often significantly less than the amount the employee actually produces, because the employer is the one with all of the power when it comes to wages. It's hard to turn down or quit a job with a shitty wage when there's unlikely to be any alternative, and employers benefit from that fact.

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[quote]So that they don't die. Either from hunger, lack of shelter, or disease. So that they can go to college. [/quote] Businesses aren't charities, and it's folly to say they have to act like on in certain situations. Someone who is making more than what they are producing for the company is making that company lose money. Now you can say that companies will just have to deal with it and pay him X amount anyways, but they wont just lie down and take it. They'll either fire him, not employ him to begin with, or raise prices.