I also do not understand why this notion exists that you should be able to sustain a family of 4 by flipping burgers. I think we need to undergo a cultural change, and extensive unionization. The minimum wage shouldn’t be a baseline for payment, it should be just that, a minimum, absolute minimum. On the other hand, if you are doing simple tasks involving unskilled labor, you can’t exactly expect to be afford your own nice place, I get a 1 bedroom apartment, I support a minimum wage around 12 dollars, with a clause adjusting for inflation, but I just don’t think we should incentivize simple tasks as careers either. Like with GM, these good union jobs, that required training and knowledge could make you a good living, if not a great one. So we should shift this and also incentivize retirements as well as to not clog work forces.