2. “I used to work at McDonald’s making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss is trying to say? It’s like ‘hey, if I could pay you less, I would, but it’s against the law.”
Rock may have unwittingly made the point that libertarians often make regarding a government mandated minimum wage. If left to the employer, the market would determine what your labor is worth and what the business owner is able to afford. If they can’t afford to pay what the government is forcing them to pay, they must resort to automated systems, or worse, dissolve the business.
