I wouldn’t be surprised, but that’ll just hasten automation even more. Fast food only just supports the pocket-money wages of local teens. It’s not even close to being able to support union wages. No-skill workers demanding $20+ an hour are going to find they’re very easily replaceable by machines at that cost; I shudder to think of how crappy and slow service would get at a fast-food joint if it was staffed with union goons.
I had a conversation with a lib regarding the minimum wage pretty recently...
it seems that there is no thought given to the ability of the worker to contribute to the business determining what they should be paid,
it’s all a matter of what they “need to live on”.
They’ll often deny “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” because they recognize the communist origins of that philosophy,
but they’ll have it as an assumption behind their arguments.
It’s pretty crappy now.