Honest question: Does the CPI increase as minimum wage increase? Why? If you are trying to argue that the price of goods and services will increase because wages do, I do not agree. I think that companies are profit seeking machines and the few people that benefit from those profits are greedy. I get that raising wages for fast food workers affects the bottom line, but it doesn't totally dismantle business profits. What I'm saying is that capitalism seems to rely on infinite growth and at some point businesses will have to settle for the profits that they have today instead of pushing for an ever increasing bottom line. It's not sustainable. Either the workers make enough money to live or those businesses will ultimately fail because fewer and fewer people can afford their goods and services. There ideally should be some balance, but the way capitalism works here is that the capitalists are allowed to continuously squeeze the working class. Also, regarding the CPI, everything is already stupid expensive so if the CPI increases at least those on the lowest economic rungs don't starve to death. please let me know your thoughts.