If you generally say that laws are written by lobbyists for the benefit of the group(s) that are in power at the expense of the powerless, no one bats an eye.

If you generally say that laws are written by lobbyists for the benefit of the group(s) that are in power at the expense of the powerless, no one bats an eye. But as soon as you start applying that to sacred cows like minimum wage, people fall into immediate cognitive dissonance.