Please don't misrepresent what I wrote - that is arguing in bad faith.
You simply wrote "Minimum wage increase do not increase unemployment."
I pointed out "Small changes in the minimum wage will have minimal changes in short term total unemployment - less productive workers will have a harder time competing as more desirable workers will now compete with them and longer term there will be a bigger incentive to switch to automation to remove workers.
Economists think larger increases in the minimum wage though will effect total unemployment as the law of supply of demand still holds. As one example, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated a national $15 minimum would cause employment to be reduced by 1.4 million workers."
You then respond with an insult and a link to the Nobel prize about the research showing that small increases in the minimum wage don't have an effect on employment levels and that sometimes higher pay would also attract more applicants, boosting labor supply. I pointed our that this was exactly what I said. Those 'more applicants' they refer to are why I said in the longer term less productive workers will have a harder time competing as more desirable workers will now compete with them - that won't be reflected in overall employment but it will hurt the most vulnerable workers. I also pointed out that "the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimated a national $15 minimum would cause employment to be reduced by 1.4 million workers." While small increases of the minimum age won't have a major effect on employment you are acting as if you think that it would not be possible that increasing the minimum wage by over 100% could have no effect on employment. If everyone is already earning over $15 an hour it wouldn't have an effect, but for example, the wage rates in San Francisco are much higher than rural Mississippi. If you don't think a >100% increase could have an effect, please explain why you are right and economists at the CBO are wrong.
You then falsely claim I am making a straw man argument. No, I am not - I pointed out that while small increases won't have a noticeable effect on employment level, economists think a large increase can have a direct effect on employment or otherwise economists would simply propose making a $100 minimum wage. If you don't think that a minimum wage can ever affect employment levels then say so, if you think there is some level where it would affect employment levels, then what is that level and how did you decide what that level is?