OK the problem I always see with this. Let's say I make $35 an hour. Shouldnt my salary now go up to like $70 since I was a higher value worker from that time? That won't happen.
I agree people deserve to live in moderate comfort ( a 1 bedroom apartment and a small car is fine for many). But I'm sorry, the dummy on tik Tok all day that barely can do their job at a pizza joint should not make almost the same money that I do providing industrial service knowledge that makes products you use every day. Some jobs are far more valuable than others, in real life.
Thats why musicians get paid nothing and construction workers get bank. Because their service is much more valuable in the real world.
I am always the bad guy in these convos. But admit it. You know the shitheads I'm talking about. They do not deserve that amount of pay. Not every poor person is secretly rain man if they just had money. A lot of people are just dumb.
Again, yes, give them enough to live on, but a lazy and unskilled person doesn't deserve land and a house and fancy things that other people worked their asses off for.