From a Daily Show segment (but transcription c/o The Poopington Huff):
I'm assuming this is poetry to the eyes of the "free to work for what you will" crowd, but to me this illustrates exactly why we should be very, very wary of letting the capitalist overlords start paying whatever wage they'd like and then letting us "decide" that we'll work for it.Schiff: "If we eliminated the minimum wage law then individuals would be free to accept jobs at whatever pay they're able to get."
Bee: "Paint me a picture of a person whose work would be worth $2 an hour."
Schiff: "You know somebody who might be? Maybe somebody who is, uh, you know, what's the politically correct word? Uh, you know, uh, for, uh, you know, mentally retarded?"
Bee: [...]
Schiff: "I'm not going to say that we're all created equal... you're worth what you're worth."