Probably not, but that's not really what minimum wage jobs exist to do, nor is "need to feed my family" a reason to ignore the market value of a specific job.
Indeed. It's like trying to dig a hole in the backyard with a spoon. Yeah, you can use the spoon. It might get the job done. It's also not what it's for.
I don't understand why you're so teleological about it. Minimum wage jobs aren't "for" teenage laborers who only need to earn money for leisure any more than they are "for" workers who need to support themselves. All that we need really to say about them is that: they're jobs that are out there, there are people who need jobs badly enough to apply for them, and those people happen to include a lot of people who need to support themselves and their families.
Not that you are the slightest bit capable of recognizing this, but what you're doing is invoking some arbitrary and unprovable telos for minimum wage work in order to make the moral case that we shouldn't care about the fact that minimum wage workers are struggling to survive. You intuit that this is the thing to do here because you misread proponents for minimum wage hikes to be making purely a moral claim that businesses (or society or government or whatever) should be making life more livable for these people. But that's not the claim they're making; they're making a more complex claim that, as a matter of policy, a minimum wage hike would (at least temporarily) be a better way to help minimum wage workers help themselves than relying on informal and state support networks to take care of their unmet basic needs.
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Not that you are the slightest bit capable of recognizing this, but what you're doing is invoking some arbitrary and unprovable telos for minimum wage work in order to make the moral case that we shouldn't care about the fact that minimum wage workers are struggling to survive. You intuit that this is the thing to do here because you misread proponents for minimum wage hikes to be making purely a moral claim that businesses (or society or government or whatever) should be making life more livable for these people. But that's not the claim they're making; they're making a more complex claim that, as a matter of policy, a minimum wage hike would (at least temporarily) be a better way to help minimum wage workers help themselves than relying on informal and state support networks to take care of their unmet basic needs.