At this point, I'm pretty open to the idea that a less-than-ideal intervention like raising the minimum wage is better than no intervention. But we need to be honest that the minimum wage is on the table because of a political calculus that is not great.
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The unions obviously don't expect to lose members. They may, quite reasonably, expect costs to be passed on to consumers (e.g.: https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20171445&&from=f …), which would be fine with me if those were mostly high-income consumers...but these are minimum wage jobs...
...and so I worry that cost-pass-through will primarily go to *low* income consumers.
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If cost pass-through is small, as I for one expect (and I think most progressives do also), then the fact that many of these low income consumers ought *also* to be beneficiaries of significantly expanded income should cushion that blow.
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The idea that consumers are in most cases also workers remains the biggest conceptual hurdle in most situations where the interests of the two are presented as in conflict.
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