This would hurt the skilled labor force and everyone trying to afford McDonald's. The issue is that social security recipients don't receive a living wage, and we have a generation of elderly living on 1k a month because husbands worked low 1940 wages/economy that didn't have high pay into the system, yet that generation believed in the government and that social security would take care of them, and lived in fear of the stock market crashing from the depression era crash. It's not a matter of higher minimum wage as it would be a matter of consumer protection and price protection. But we live in a capitalist society, so if a company sets a price people are willing to pay then that effects the economy. If the goods are dangerous or say for instance bad for health, the government has to intervene with laws that protect consumers, but they don't. Super size me proved that they can set changes but quality and ingredients that cause health problems are still being used in consumer goods.