And in Seattle there's bookstore owners/managers who attribute their success specifically to the high-wage earners who come to the local independent bookstores

And in Seattle there's bookstore owners/managers who attribute their success specifically to the high-wage earners who come to the local independent bookstores to shop[1]. Think of highly paid Amazon workers (or perhaps even folks with higher minimum wages) having extra money to spend... on local bookstores. But then the same bookstore mentioned in the NY Times article[1] goes on to say a higher minimum wage could be fatal.[2] Either theres some hypocrisy going on or the people with the newer, higher minimum wages are not spending their money on bookstores. I'd guess the latter. But at what point are wages too high or too low so we can have local bookstores and support them? Should we even be encouraging that in the first place? Or look at it another way: How and why are successful bookstores being successful? [1]http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/us/bookstores-in-seattle-soar-and-embrace-an-old-nemesis-amazoncom.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/us/bookstores-in-seattle-s... [2]http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/03/03/elliott-bay-books-owner-says-15-minimum-wage-could-be-possibly-fatal http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2014/03/03/elliott-...