If you want poor people to be able to eat, give them money.

Right, which is exactly what I was saying, those societies mentioned as not having a minimum wage tend to have other mechanisms to either set an effective minimum or structures to help out. It's not like those other countries without minimum wages also give poorer people the finger in every other way, like the US does, and as I imagine would be the case in your (obviously) libertarian fantasy-land.

I live in Singapore. We don't have a minimum wage.

It's a neoliberal fantasy-land, yes. Lee Kuan Yew's autobiography was called "From Third World to First" for good reason.

Singapore has public housing, subsidized healthcare, public schools, mandatory military service and public transportation.

Also living on any sort of low wage is massivly uncomfortable. Just affording air conditioning is difficult.

Even people with great jobs end up living with multiple generations of family in tiny apartments.

Might want to update your profile then, it still says London.

What do we know about Singapore? It has masses and masses of public housing, so people are looked after in a way that doesn't happen in the US. The US is very keen to push this sort of thing on employers - see also health insurance.

It's a different model and I would agree probably a worse one, but either way it's the state ensuring people have their basic needs met.

Ha, Bloomberg is also no longer current.

The US healthcare-through-employer tax rebates are crazy. But politically untouchable, alas.