The Minimum Wage Lie

A recent study showed that nearly half of young people have a favorable view of socialism. 

That’s pretty shocking. But it actually starts to make sense when you look at the ways the public education system has been captured by the so-called progressives, and the fact that kids today have a hard time believing that if you just work hard, you’ll be rewarded fairly, and have a great shot at a prosperous life.

Most of the people of working age today have never experienced the return on investment of time and labor that generations before them enjoyed. 

It’s no wonder they believe that the harder people work, the less it seems to matter.

Most of them grew up with two parents who busted their tails full-time and still struggled to keep up. 

There’s a simple reason, although most people don’t realize it.

Of course, that’s by design.

Between 1948 and 1973, workers’ productivity and their pay rose together in lockstep. That’s how it’s supposed to work: when you produce more value, your wages reflect it. 

But in 1971, something changed.

That was the year Nixon took the United States off the gold standard, effectively untethering the dollar from any real, tangible value.

Instead of being tied to gold, our currency became just… paper. Or worse—numbers on a screen. This gave the government and the Federal Reserve the power to print as much money as they wanted. And guess what? They did.

Here’s the dirty secret that the powerful elite have done such a great job of keeping from the average person: when governments print more money, it doesn’t create wealth—it steals it. 

Every new dollar devalues the dollars already in your pocket. 

That’s why the chart shows productivity continuing to climb while wages flatline. Workers keep producing more, but inflation quietly eats away at their earnings, and the only real beneficiaries are the elites closest to the money printer—the banks, corporations, and politicians who rig the system for their own gain.

It’s easy to see why a generation who has never known wages that rise with production would be so passionate about a significant increase to the federal minimum wage. Of course it seems like the fair and rational thing to do. 

What no one has ever taught them is that while raising the minimum wage sounds great in theory, it doesn’t fix the root issue: the dollars people earn are constantly losing value because of inflation. So even when workers earn more on paper, that money buys less and less over time. 

It’s a vicious cycle.

And here’s what’s even worse: kids today are being conditioned to believe socialism is the solution to problems like this. And it’s no wonder—they’re hardwired with a sense of fairness that makes them easy targets for this kind of manipulation. They see the wage gap and rising costs, and they’re told, “This isn’t fair! The government needs to fix it.”

But real fairness doesn’t come from more government intervention—it can’t. It comes from fixing our money (ending the Federal Reserve for one) and then getting out of people’s way so that they can succeed or fail on merit.

That’s why we wrote The Tuttle Twins and the Creature from Jekyll Island. It’s a story about how money is created, how inflation robs hardworking families, and why government-controlled systems only ever make things worse. 

It’s the kind of knowledge every kid (and adult) needs in order to avoid being pulled into the trap of socialist thinking.

The truth is, the system is broken—but not in the way socialists claim. It’s broken because it’s built on a foundation of fiat currency, cronyism, and endless government meddling. And the solution isn’t more intervention—it’s freedom, sound money, and personal responsibility.

It’s up to us to teach our kids these principles before someone else teaches them that socialist policies are the answer.

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I have a lot of compassion for young people. It’s easy to criticize their backward thinking until you realize that, for the most part, they’ve been failed (and manipulated) by the very system that was supposed to prepare them for the real world. It happens to be a system that benefits from their misguided beliefs. 

But it isn’t too late. With parents like you using resources like ours, we can make real and lasting change in the way that the rising generation understands and engages with the world around them. 

We can raise a generation that has the chance to truly be free.

And I can’t think of a more noble or worthy cause than that.

— Connor