I have been saying that for ever since they started this $15 thingy. But now that it is hurtung those who is was supposed to help, the supporters of this garbage are due for a rude awakening.
The purpose is not to help those at the bottom of the ladder. Those unfortunates really don’t matter. They don’t even vote.
The purpose is to induce general wage inflation that will benefit those voters up a few steps on the ladder. They will get inflation induced raises that will be hawked as the result of the glorious campaign of the Democrats for the great American workers that matter.
Inflation reduces debt. Inflation effectively reduces pension debt that can never be paid otherwise.