The solution, imo, for minimum wage workers are not perpetual increases in the minimum wage. But to increase the pathways to learning marketable skills.
I agree. Learning on the job was the first step for so many kids and even for a lot of adults. And they way to keep your head above water while you went to academic or trade school. If you make the first rungs impossible to reach, you create an unemployable underclass and plant the seeds of civil unrest. Raising the minimum wage chokes the economy.