> People won't work for less than their worth.

People do it all the time. When their basic needs (food, health, shelter) aren't being met, they'll take whatever work they can. It doesn't mean they're getting their true worth out of that work, it just means they're getting screwed by their employers who are taking advantage of their need to pay them less than they would otherwise.

You clearly never have been poor

If you were starving and I offered you a job washing dishes for $2/hour, would you take it to be able to afford some rice+beans tonight or would you rather not eat tonight? You're worth more than $2/hour.

We need minimum wage laws to protect people from being crunched by capitalists exploiting labor market inefficiencies.

> You're worth more than $2/hour.

Says who?

In this scenario let's presume the laborer has valuable welding skills but the only factory in town closed. They need to move somewhere else to use their skills but that takes time. In the meantime they need to eat and so they take a job washing dishes.

Inefficiencies in the labor market happen all the time. A minimum wage is one way to protect desperate people from being unfairly exploited.

It was a parameter stipulated in a hypothetical example.

> People won't work for less than their worth.

That's beyond absurd, showing no understanding at all about human nature whatsoever. I have billions of counterexamples for you. I cannot think of anyone I know who hasn't done this at some time in their life. Working for less than one's worth is, in fact, what the majority of the human race is doing. Working for one's worth or for more than one's worth is what is rare and almost nonexistent.