Alright, I'm going to go through this again, since no one seems to be reading my posts.

Let's suppose a company needs a certain order filled. By order we can mean work etc. Order is a variable. Say the order is 10x. X can be anything.

It can get a bunch of desperate people for a dollar each to fill it. Each person can fill 1x. Thus, 10 people fill 10x for 10 bucks.

Now, with minimum wage, it must pay 5 bucks (bucks here don't mean dollars, just take it to mean a hypothetical currency). It will now pay 50 bucks for the same job to be done. Or, it could hire 2 people for 5 bucks each, and an initial cost of 5 more for training, to increase productivity to fulfill the 10x order.

So now, where your "nation" (let's take it to mean a set of these 10 people and the company) has filled its entire work order, and still has 8 people left, which can be used to further productivity on some other work order.

Of course, this assumes that a demand for the 8 workers will be found etc.

But still, what happens is your nation increases its productivity.

Now imagine that theres a neighboring country where workers will work for half a buck an hour. In the first case, there would be no incentive for the company to either stay in your nation or to import workers. But if you have minimum wage, and enforce it, not only will there be no incentive to import workers, there will be less incentive to move, as the large numbers of untrained workers will be able to produce much less product than the trained workers your nation has converted to.

Now this is a gross simplification, and only argues against one of the reasons put up here against the minimum wage, but I'm hoping this will prevent similar posts from happening. I've seen way too many posts that argue against the minimum wage AFTER I had posted reasons why a certain argument didn't work without even replying to the points I made, as if the more people who said something without evidence would create evidence out of nowhere.