Let’s look at some numbers. If we assume monthly costs of $1,000 for rent, $1,000 for student loan repayment, $500 for food, $300 for utilities and $200 for eating out (and I’m certainly glad to change these numbers if you feel that they’re too high or low), that’s $3,000/month just for these categories. If we then assume four weeks of 40-hour employment weeks, that 3,000/160=$18.75/hour. Note that these estimates don’t include child care, health insurance, car payments, etc.

I don’t think a minimum wage of almost $20/hour is realistic in our current capitalist society. Therefore, I don’t think that an expectation that an employer should provide a wage that meets all of an employee’s projected expenses is realistic either. In order to make your idea work, how do you propose that society should be restructured in order to meet your expectations of employers? Simply saying that employers are greedy doesn’t solve anything.