(CNN) What happened late last week to Talia Jane -- who became suddenly Internet famous after being fired from her job at Yelp -- fits an all-too-easy narrative: underpaid 20-something writes desperate complaint about low wages and greedy corporate employer suppresses dissent by firing her. But millennials working for starvation pay should learn something from Jane's fate: Things could be worse, and will be, when minimum-wage laws price them out of their jobs. For many, Jane -- who wrote an open letter to her CEO about her situation -- is a sympathetic figure. She claimed she was making just $8.15 an hour after taxes working a boring job in customer relations for Yelp/Eat24. That's not a lot of money -- especially in San Francisco, and especially for an unfulfilled college graduate with an English degree and journalism aspirations.Robby Soave: Yelp worker grouses on Medium about low wages, gets fired; but it's not story of greedy corporation, need for better wagesHe says if companies paid young, unproven workers more, they'd go out of business. Low wage jobs are how young people break in
Numerous cities are gradually doing so -- _ will have a $15-per-hour minimum by 2018.