Liberals are too damned stupid to understand that they pushed the minimum wage too high. Now it’ll take at least several years of inflation to bring that back into line with economic reality (by which time, of course, the higher minimum wage will have the same real value as the old minimum, so the only thing liberals will have achieved is putting people out of work for several years and made the rest of us poorer with their increased inflation).
They were not stupid, but operating to plan.
One, they exploit class envy by trumpeting the higher wages they get.
Two, when the inevitable firing of employees occurs as they cannot be afforded, the least productive are thrown on the welfare roles.
Three, increasing people on welfare increases govt size, budget, and gets more people(which characteristically are the least productive) to consider their savior is the Democrat party.