Sadly, Margaret makes it sound like egregious market "adjustments" in response to minimum wage increases are inevitable consequence of well-meaning but unwise progressives.
  But, of course, they are not part of nature, only choices by business folks who don't want their employees to make a livable wage if their living cuts into business profits.
   The problem is that, like all progressive changes that workers plead for over the course of many decades, business people woke up too late. Minimum wage should have been increased gradually, incrementally, over the decades. That's precisely what liberals are traditionally purported to stand for: incremental change that gradually spreads prosperity to all. Unfortunately, conservative fiscal policies are now set in stone throughout the entire global economy, despite Liberal governments in power.
  Sorry, but my heart doesn't bleed for Margaret's elitist friends.