I have no job right now. I am unemployed- that is, if you exclude washing the dishes and putting my clothes away. The wage rate hardly affects me, but affects so many others so very much. Until the minimum wage law is changed, millions of people across the country will struggle to get by. A higher wage is a derived demand - the demand of a higher wage spurred by the demand for life's simple necessities. While myself and most around me can get by comfortably, those who can't must survive off of an incredibly low minimum wage, which makes surviving almost impossible to grasp.