And some people are pointing to the magnitude of the recent changes in some places in the US, $8->$15 per hour, as an experiment that perhaps hasn’t been tried

And some people are pointing to the magnitude of the recent changes in some places in the US, $8->$15 per hour, as an experiment that perhaps hasn’t been tried before. It’s possible this will be different. But anyone who claims that minimum wage hikes will affect jobs, is making a hypothesis based on some theory that is far from settled, not a predition based on evidence.