In order to achieve an adequate life in an ideal society, a person must obtain a job. Jobs are like a bag of mixed candy: they come in a variety of sizes and values. Like everyone else, people like to choose the best candies first, but what happens when all the good candies are taken? People are stuck with the “bad” candy. In this case, people like to pick the best jobs, but, like the bag of candy, what happens when all the good jobs are taken? Likewise, people end up with “bad” jobs that pay low wages. The minimum wage is a nightmare for anyone who depends on this payment for a living; Additionally, the minimum wage requires a person to work more than one job to earn a good living, and it requires hard work paid with wages that cannot compensate for the back pain, depression, and poverty that comes with it. are associated. The minimum wage must be increased to a more accommodating wage to ensure a decent life. Work can provoke a feeling of success, cheerfulness and detachment from the world; however, the job can also cause acrimony. Thomas Carlyle said, “Work is life” (210). As per his statement, life revolves around work. Without work, there is no success in life; Moreover, those who work hard tend to be auspicious in their lives. Take for example Bill Gates. He worked hard and where is he in life now? He is swimming in riches. The world tells you that if you work hard, you will always succeed in life. You have to be naive if you want to believe that this will happen very often. Even though the minimum wage sounds like a cacophony to our ears, it does exist. People in minimum wage jobs must have more than one job to be able to pay for housing, food, and basic necessities. We all know that "If you can't provide...paper...money because of the economy, it shouldn't punish its workers by not rewarding them the extra money for the overtime they work." . took, by making their work more rigorous than average, or by making them work irregular hours. I agree with Booker T. Washington's statement: "The opportunity to make a dollar in a factory today is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar..." (193). Why is earning a dollar worth infinitely more than spending it? No matter how underpaid a job is for their employees, their employees have worked hard for this insignificant amount of money, and it pains them to spend their hard-earned money. Like Ms. Ehrenreich, I too agree that “you don't need a degree in economics to see that wages are too low…” (199). If America Does Not Raise the Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage Workers Will Continue to Be Disabled from Paving the Way to a Better Life..