There are already people in the comments complaining that $15/hr is "plenty" (people who, I'll hazard to wager, make at least twice that). I made $15/hr working at Best Buy, and that was a job where I was paid to move around the store, interact (mostly positively) with customers and coworkers, perform a variety of relatively engaging tasks, and got benefits/paid breaks/etc. It was not enough to live on; I dipped into savings every month.

$15 to sit on a computer, labeling photos, in 2023, sounds much less an agreeable situation. And I should know: I also did a temp data entry contract, sitting in a room by myself for 8 hours, doing the same thing over and over, for ~$12/hr (essentially the same pay wrt inflation). Likewise, I was not making ends meet and dipping into savings for the 2 months I was doing that job.

I'd really like people who are comparatively better-off to stop telling us what's "enough". $15/hr was a good wage to shoot for when the "raise the wage" movement started more than a decade (!) ago. It's been almost 15 years of near-zero interest rates and the attendant inflation, exacerbated by several crises that required money-printing to keep the economy out of a recession. Maybe some assets could stand to be devalued to allow workers to receive what is actually a living wage today (which would be north of $20/hr).