The government should not be tasked with implementing/maintaining a minimum wage for its nation. Alternatively, the capitalist society in which we live maintains a government tasked to protect the environment which only aims to provide a man the means to express and use his own judgment to pursue what he needs to sustain himself, not to provide, necessarily, those such to survive. While, yes, it may have been important to implement a program such as minimum wage to protect to labor of women in children so they are not subjected to slave labor, it should not be and is not the job of the government to force an employer to pay the employee a specific amount solely because the employee requires it to maintain his property and life or to meet the cost of living
In our capitalist society, if an employer pays their employee an insufficient amount for the cost the employee deems necessary to survive, the employee has the ability to pursue a job that could support the standard of living they would desire to live. The employer is not required to make sure their employee gets to sleep in a bed at night, especially if it means the employer is sacrificing their own profit. This “not requirement”, if you will, is only intensified if the employer does not deem the work of the employee to be worth any more than they are already receiving.
This goes both ways, as a man has the right to utilize his own judgment, he also has the right to not offer his labor for a payment he does not deem fair, either. An employer can choose not to pay for work he does not think is adequate, and an employee can choose not to work for a wage he, too, does not deem adequate. The ensuing results are the problems of those individuals. One of which could be that the employer might find themselves in a position with no employees. This should signify to that employer that their judgment is wrong and would need to offer more pay, which the employee may then find adequate. Oppositely, the worker may realize he has been aiming for a pay for a service that does not require that expense.
Being unable to afford clothes or transportation to maintain a job is not a threat to one’s rights nor is being unable to keep one’s home. However, when a person becomes unable to follow their better judgment (of finding a job or jobs that will supply them the means to live how they want or to work a job they do not agree with to live), that is when rights begin to be threatened. To elaborate, the purpose of (our) government is to protect the rights of its citizens. Those rights are, in actuality, the right of a man over his life and to act according to his own judgment, not to property or a job or a better job. Therefore, government intervention might be necessary when individuals are forced to act against that judgment, provided their judgment is correct.