Okay, that's technically true, but that's a distraction. My point is that increasing minimum wage rewards businesses who already paid a living wage. Ultimately

Okay, that's technically true, but that's a distraction. My point is that increasing minimum wage rewards businesses who already paid a living wage. Ultimately I've seen zero evidence that raising the minimum wage has any negative effects on the economy. There are only hypotheses about how it could affect it negatively, but economies are too complicated for us to be making decisions based on hypotheses without evidence.