Speaking to as someone who worked to get what I got, I owned my first house when I was 27. And finally paid off my first mortgage at 45 without needing to pay a second one.
The minimum wage was always suppose to be used to pay for home, utilities, and bare necessities at the very least. And that was just when there was one man working to pay for his family. Sure, a minimum pay job isn’t suppose to pay for a family, but there are a lot of dead end jobs now that prevent people from earning enough to simply pay for a 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment or starter house.
That is bullshit.