i am not the one arguing in a vacuum of special pleading. I think you can find some accommodation on fifteen an hour; and, higher paid labor pays more in taxes and creates more in demand.
Higher paid labor can afford to pay for more infrastructure.
I always laugh when I hear uneducated people talk about fifteen dollars an hour.
They seem to think that companies will just give them the raise without increasing the cost of their product.
If you get fifteen then the price of what they sell will go up. Soon others see that it is costing them more to live so they increase their wage. I am speaking of doctors, mechanics and others. Within a few years fifteen is now the new nine dollars an hour.
So what did you gain. Why a few years in which to amass the large screen tv, the iPhone 15, and the hummer 6. Then you won't be able to pay for food and a roof over your head but you will have all those nifty things.