Compensation for work comes in the forms of money, working environment, flexibility, etc.

A minimum wage is a ban on certain baskets of compensation for work.

It doesn't prevent 'exploitation', whatever that means. Companies fiercely competing for labour is what you want here.

>A minimum wage is a ban on certain baskets of compensation for work

No, it's not.

That's literally how a minimum wage works legally: you can have the nicest work environment and biggest flexibility and awesome training (or not), but if the money part of the job is below some minimum, the job is banned.

Maybe try working one. Minimum wage jobs literally have among the worst working environments.

I would have to move countries to do that. There's no minimum wage where I live.

In the gastro industry it’s extremely common (at least in my country) to be employed illegally (as in cash in hand directly).

Most restaurants you go to to eat would have to close if they needed to employ their workers legally. Same thing applies to bars and similar venues.

Source: worked in that industry 10+ years

> Most restaurants you go to to eat would have to close if they needed to employ their workers legally.

And then there would be much more demand for restaurants, then there is supply, causing the prices to rise until they could afford to pay the workers legally.