Minimum wage hurts most the very people it pretends to help: the least productive of us, who become unemployable legally.

Business who can't raise their labor costs will either:

  - raise prices while passing costs to consumers
  - go out of business thus reducing consumer choice
  - turn onto robots or offshoring (if possible)

None of those is good for neither workers nor consumers. I'd rather we raise worker wages the Silicon Valley way: through merciless competition between companies for talent, while encouraging said talent to start their own competing businesses.

You know what minimum wage is great for? Electing politicians.