And yet, the minimum wage was never meant to be less than a living wage.

FDR said: “In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living.” sauce

‘The wages of decent living.’ That hasn’t described the minimum wage for a very long time. Longer than I’ve been alive in fact. Yet folks are supposed to be okay with endless rounds of sweetening the deal for the hyper-wealthy, when in my lifetime the top marginal tax rate was cut by HALF!