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human
Is the minimum wage debate purposefully misleading?

My understanding of the 101 explanation of minimum wage is that it harms *low skilled* workers; yet most of the discussions about it from the public (and even some economist) is about it not having much of an effect on *low wage* workers or little to no effect to employment. Why is it that most people who seem to be for minimum wage tend to talk about low wage workers and the effects on employment instead of the effects to low skilled workers? Is it really just a way for proponents to ignore the actual effect minimum wage has on low skilled workers or is there a good reason, in economics, for the switch?
gpt
The Econ 101 explanation is that it affects the workers with the lowest skill *because* those are the ones that get paid the least, because they are the least productive.

Basically, lowest wage and lowest skill workers are the same set of people.