It must see some who were previously paid less than the new national living wage no longer employed because it is not profitable for those employing them to employ them any longer.
But you do see some who used to have a job before the amount they could be paid is increased no longer working.
Trouble with that line is that Hong Kong before it was handed back to china didn?t go that route and did fine anyway.
There isn't just one happy medium. Everything from Hong Kong before it was handed back to China, the US which has a derisory minimum wage to Britain with a much higher national living wage to the more extreme socialist countries in western europe all work fine.
Nothing even remotely like the situation today.
Same with workhouses and the decent modern welfare systems too.
Everyone but the absolute dregs of the EU and the third world is.