@hansw@mastodon.social Oh you mean your asking, how do we fix the problem if minimum wage isnt the solution...

Well in my mind thats simple, there is the short term part which just keeps them alive and cared for till we fix the mess we created, and there is the long term part where we make sure they dont need assistance in the future (at least not very often)

Short term the solution is welfare. If someone makes less than a living wage, the government should help them with their basic needs (food, shelter, whatever the bare minimum is to stay alive and relatively safe).

Long term is the real meat and potatoes of any solution though. That mostly comes from making underskilled workers, skilled workers. That means providing education, vocational training, in some cases psychiatry help as well.

The key is to make sure people to leech off the short term solutions and dont take or engage with the long term solutions. for that I tend to say welfare should be incentive based. That is, if you arent taking the free education and training from the long-term side, then the help you get short term will be so minimal as to be unpleasant (just enough food not to have malnutrition, and yoru shelter would be a cot with a bunch of other people). However for those who do take the long term help and apply themselves, such as seeking education, those people will get much better short term help, more money for more enriching foods, and enough shelter to live alone in a small apartment or with a single roomate in a nice area.