I have never believed in the minimum wage concept. For those who do believe it makes sense why ask for a measly fifteen dollars? If it really is that simple why not fifteen HUNDRED an hour? That way a person could work one eight hour shift a week and live like royalty the other six days. The comical part is that anyone but a raving lunatic finds my suggestion absurd but many of them think THEY know what minimum is reasonable.
Bring back the supply and demand curve to the jobs market, and the wage would raise naturally to something a worker could live on. And there could be stability in the job market.
But the mess we have now with the global rush to exploiting the cheapest possible labor is what creates the cries for a minimum wage. That would be wages so low that they have to be subsidized by government handouts, while those sitting at the top of the heap rake in billions.
It's not sustainable.