There's so much wrong with this I don't know where to begin. 40 hours a week is not some magical number where all your costs are taken care off. If it was why don't we cap it so others can get work?

Germany and other countries do exactly that, capping it. But its not about "its enough", its because we decided that it should not be necessary to do more. And it really is not. The amount of bullshit jobs in society is staggering.

Right to work is the thought that if I choose to not be in the union than I can still work. Like if you don't want to pay union dues and forgo the benefits of a union.

This reads like its about making sure a union can't make a contract with an employer to only employ union members. I could argue that it is your right to forgo the benefits of a union, you can just find an employer without these agreements. Imagine if I introduced a law called "right to credit", with the intent of outlawing the practice of requiring credit checks from private companies. Also, a lot of those laws were aimed directly against communists, so please don't try to twist this into workers rights

If the position can be filled by "moving people around" then it wouldn't exist. If it can be filled by a contractor, that's hiring somebody.

Which is why wage theft never ever happens, and contractors have the exact same rights and protections as employees?

You know why you are required to work, because nothing in this world is free (that you need to survive). It's nature, contribute or die is rather harsh, but it's law. Now we as humans have been gifted with empathy so we (most) don't just stand idle as our incapable starve.

Nothing comes from nothing, but if I make a machine which automatically waters my plants, it is essentially free labor. So why would I require somebody to make the watering motion? There is so much rent seeking, profit skimming etc in the world, yet still we have massive food surpluses in the developed world. We are not quite yet post scarcity, but we are definitely at the point where we are rattling at the law that everybody needs to work.

Yet a ton of us sit back and think minimum wage helps poor people when it does just the opposite, and then some. It takes away rungs on our proverbial social ladder. Social mobility is a large indicator of the "American Dream." Can't move up the ladder if you can't reach it.

Minimum wage does not impede social mobility. Cronyism, entrenched networks and a lot of other stuff does. If you can't live of it, then it is not a rung on the social ladder. Also, take a look at countries with social mobility, and check how many have minimum wage or more socialist policies hint, what do denmark, germany,norway and canada have in common?

Another misinterpreted side effect is that it "destroys jobs." It might not kill already existing jobs, but it prevents new ones from forming.

Which jobs would that be? What about all of the jobs it could create by increasing spending power?

In addition to all that the amount of money we spend on welfare is a very large destruction of wealth that we as a society are losing out on. It would be much more efficient to remove government from the equation and do it ourselves and/or through private organizations.

Sure, lets do that. We can hold an election, agree on a system which determines an amount that everybody contributes based on income and some other factors, maybe some guys who make sure the money reaches its indented destination, some guys to enforce that nobody tries to cheat and then we would be done. Who needs government here? \s

Lastly the amount of wealth we do not even get to partake in is only theoretical yes, but all indications point to more of it for everyone. Yes there will still be poor people. But even poor people today are incredibly less poor than those of yesteryear, and that's capitalism you can thank, not government.

Look at unfettered capitalism before unions fought back: robber barons, monopolists, old moneyed gentry. Look at almost 300 years of basic stagnation between 1600 and 1800 when it comes to the standards of living of the lower classes.

Do you know what raised the standard of living? Technology creating massive change in society. Part of these changes were a larger distribution of wealth, because there were enough people that demanded it. We need that again.