In the UK if you are low paid you can get social security benefits , help with you rent etc. So effectively we subsidise people in low paid jobs.

I'm not saying they should be paid the same as a skilled worker but the job market shouldn't be distorted by this sort of well meaning government intervention.

>I don't think the state should subsidise low paid jobs.
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>How does the state subsidize low paid jobs?
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>Why should I help bad employers pay rubbish wages because they know the government will subsidise those workers.
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>Again, I have no idea what you are talkign about. I realize (having worked in the food service industry to work my way through college) that bartenders and waitresses get paid extremely low wages, but do you really think that they should be paid the same hourly wage as I am getting as a developer? Sometimes they are not bad employers. They are just paying uneducated and unskilled employees for doing meial jobs that one day will be done by a machine.
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>In a healthy economy bad employers will rightly go bust because they cannot afford decent rates of pay and so cannot find staff.
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>IMHO, this is the same philosophy that caused England's and Detroit's automobile manufacturing industry to go under.