> there's actually little empirical evidence that minimum wages, at least at the level contemplated in the U.S., actually do have an impact on unemployment in the world world, except on part-time work by teenagers.

There are unemployed people today who would like to have a job. Isn't that sufficient empirical evidence?

> No, because lowering the minimum wage, empirically, does not produce new jobs.

But it does. As the minimum wage goes to zero, I could personally create a larger and larger number of jobs.