Okay I see I'm going to have to spell it out for you.
Why is a $100 minimum wage not logical?
Answer: Because everybody who makes less then $100 would simply become unemployed and many of the businesses that use such employees would shut down.
Now stay with me here...
Why is a $17 minimum wage not logical?
Answer: (fill in this space)
They don't understand free markets. They hate them. They are marxist. If the minimum, or living, wage was $100 an hour they just can't understand the cost of that wage would go up to the point a box of ceral would be $12.
It's like listening to an old fart talk about "when I was little a loaf of bread only cost a nickel" and ignoring they only made 12 cents an hour.
The bottom line is they have absolutely no economic sense and wouldn't understand it if their lives depended on it.
Because for them it's emotional. They never, and I mean NEVER, look at the circumstances upon which they base their lousy assumption on. They totally ignore the individual in all cases and think all of their arguments are valid if they are universal proving they are communists.
Thus, every single person in their feeble mind making $8 an hour is some poor slob trying to raise a family of four with no health insurance and eating dog food. Facts mean nothing. Reality means nothing. They strive on platitudes and generalities to justify their mindset that life is just unfair. Wow...who knew?
So they drag there sorry butts to work at a job they hate that pays what they think is crap and get jealous and envious of someone next to them in a better car. Why aren't they driving a nice Lexus? Why aren't they eating lunch in a real restaurant instead of Taco Bell? It can't be them. They are so smart, so intelligent, so misunderstood.
Oh, it must be the evil capitalism and the unfair advantage that other person MUST have gotten in life. And to justify their pitiful delusions they pretend to trumpet the perceived downtrodden of poor Wal-Mart workers that are taken from their homes and forced to stock shelves with reasonably priced items people want to buy.
The Horror...the horror!
You freemarket guys make one fundamental error. You assume that economy/market exists on its own and is not a part of the larger social/political body.
Living wage is not an economical element. It exists in the biological/political/cultural sphere.
And yes, you are right in that in the there might be times when the economy/market is not ABLE to sustain living wage for many workers. It is exact moment when the illusory wall of separation between market economy and the other spheres of social life gets ruptured.