It’s not just wages we have to worry about. The problem is taxes and greed.
Have you noticed how anytime a city announced a minimum wage increase the scum in the background automatically raise rents, housing prices rise and so on. That’s why some areas of the country are more affordable than others. Also minimum wage increases doesn’t include higher wages getting increased at the same time. Why get a education with more responsibility or workikg your way up the ladde when you can make about just as much money as a entry level job,
The problem isn’t minimum wage as we all know what those start up wages of past were but the greed of Gov and business standing on the side lines ready to grab ” your raise up” as soon as you get it. Then the gov will again play the blame game with wages.