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  It's more that we need to embrace change beyond paychecks. The right to life, liberty, and happiness must mean the right to food, shelter, education, health care at a minimum. Paycheck adjustments should be the determining factor between a US based vacation vs a European vacation, not whether someone gets to sleep in their car or under a bridge.
context: He brought up a $15 minimum wage back around 2015. That's about 8 years ago. In todays dollars a $15 minimum wage would be almost $19/hour. >
  
  Yeah that was always going to be the trap. Fighting tooth and nail for X wage would always be just in time for that number to no longer be the one you need. >
  
  Isn’t the usual answer to that issue tying it to inflation? 
  If not changing it every year, then consistent updates on a set schedule (2 years, 5 years, whatever works). >
  
  That's pretty much the only way to do it. The problem of course, is that non-minimum wage jobs wouldn't keep up. So those businesses that pay above minimum wage would be in a constant fight to stay ahead of it. They don't want to do that, which is why you see campaigns comparing burger flippers to paramedics and you're NOT supposed to come away with the conclusion that paramedics should just be paid more. >
  
  Burger flippers go thru training too ya know. >
  
  Do you really believe that both jobs should be paid the same though? >
  
  Both jobs should be paid enough to live on. Honestly, at this point, minimum wage should be like 25-30 dollars an hour to keep up with the insane increase of housing and food costs in the last 10-20 years. >
  
  100 % agree