In the 80s I worked a minimum wage job for years. Every time minimum wage went up my take he pay stayed the same. But prices went up too.
I soon realized a TAX CUT would put more money in my pay check without running inflation up.
if you think 'just pay people more' solves the problem then be willing to pay $70 for pizza because everyone down the line is getting paid x5 more an hour; now if you don't keep buying at the same rate as before then people start getting fired but if you also get paid x5 an hour and pay x5 for the pizza then the whole thing was a waste of time; there's another way to deal with this problem but if you acknowledge it then you'd be agreeing with conservatives