Another potential mechanism would be if unemployment went up high enough due to a minimum wage increase that productivity decreases so much that the same number to dollars are chasing the results of less workers.
That said, with the exception of very rural areas the wage floor for most moderately skilled or unpleasant work is above $15 an hour already, so this will probably not have much of a impact on poverty or inflation.
OK ... but if the money supply stays the same, then all you're doing is just shifting the demand curves from one set of products (stocks) to another (TVs?). Put anther way, some things will go up, and some things will go down because spending habits changed. This happens now. It's not inflation just because the price of roses goes up in February.
A thought experiment, if I printed up a dollar for each one in circulation then put them in a vault that shouldn't cause inflation even though the money supply has doubled, similarly if in a thousand years someone opens the vault and puts those dollars into circulation inflation happens even though the money supply has unchanged.
My thesis is dollars that go between hedge fund to hedge fund are "in a vault" compared to dollars that are buying food at the local Walmart. If some of those hedge fund dollars ends up in the hands of a individual (say a minimum wage increase causes firms to halt buybacks and direct that money toward payroll) that would cause inflation of consumer goods as now we have more dollars chasing the same output.
Since 2009 people on the Internet have been prophesizing about massive inflation and inflation has been extremely low.
Maybe they will one day be right, but like the boy who cried wolf nobody should be listening to warnings about inflation from people on the internet, as a class they don't have any idea what they are talking about.
I'd estimate about a 50% increase in food prices in about the last decade.
I'd also estimate that the asking price of a house was completely out of whack even post the recession in 2008; it _never_ corrected in any of the west coast areas I live in. Still even that price has continued to go up due to inelastic supply and ever growing demand.
It's certainly possible that your expenses went up 50% in your presumably super-affluent area of the U.S. It wouldn't surprise me if booming tech companies in certain regions have caused this- but it is not the effect of monetary policy or government minimum wage policy- and my expenses have not gone up much in the last 10 years in my wealthy-but-not super-affluent east coast suburb.
https://www.bls.gov/cpi/questions-and-answers.htm#Question_3
So if families are buying in lower quantities then yes it would be accounted for.
In other words, the whole point of minimum wage laws is really just grandstanding by politicians?
If someone earns less it should be considered gig not work and basically non even taxed.
Inflation is a boogeyman. I heard a friend of mine not wanting any sort of covid stimulus checks because it would make his and his family's savings depreciate.
B does not follow from A if demand is elastic. Minimum wage proponents assume enough labor demand is elastic.