The "living wage" crusade is just the latest in the left's nutty ideas that will put businesses out of business and lose jobs for the people.
When I was young everybody understood that minimum wage jobs were only temporary or only for people who needed a little side money. Nobody thought that working at a hamburger stand would be their end goal of employment. We never expected those MW jobs to support us.
I think the lib/leftists know that many of their constituents are not equipped to work more than MW jobs. They really believe all businesses, great and small, have so much money they can afford to pay all their employees living wages.
So instead of many young people learning how to work for a business at a lesser wage, they will now have many young people who will find it tough to find a job. Because there won't be a job for them....businesses will either hire the robot (who won't ask for a pay raise) or they'll relocate or go out of business. The end result: everybody loses.