I think this is a reasonable concern, so long as the base needs of our citizens are provided for. Everyone should have food, shelter, and healthcare. I believe

I think this is a reasonable concern, so long as the base needs of our citizens are provided for. Everyone should have food, shelter, and healthcare. I believe we have the societal resources to achieve this within the US, but even if we didn't that should still be the goal. Much of the debate around minimum wage centers on the idea that a person working full time should be able to have basic necessities. There's some nuance around what "full time" means or if it's even reasonable to expect people to have to exchange their limited lifetime for resources if we have alternatives, but the base of it comes down to "if people are already exchanging the accepted-normal-maximum of their free time a week for money, that money should be sufficient to provide base necessities." Yes, there are businesses that can't afford to pay $25 to waiters and waitresses, but that doesn't invalidate the fact that those people deserve to be able to live. Right now in the absence of UBI or state healthcare about the only other 'lever' we have to pull on this problem is minimum wage.