The Minimum Wage Harms Workers and Is Anti-Freedom

Who shall have the right to decide the terms and conditions people will have to enter gainful employment? Shall it be the individuals who are directly affected by these laws who decide what an acceptable wage is, given their own skill set and the market opportunities they find? Shall it be the prospective employers who offer work to others based on their market-based estimate of the potential value-added of a possible employee? Or shall it be the politicians and bureaucrats, pressured by various interest groups with their own motives for asserting a right to dictate and determine the wage at which individuals who they personally know nothing about will be allowed to find a job?