It is foolish to think that this won't result in unemployment. We live in a time in which higher labor costs for marginal work can be eliminated through automation and these higher labor costs will only accelerate that transition. You may not like that fact, but that's what will happen. You don't a free ride on planet earth and no foolish government policy can change that.
Indeed. Minimum wage is a hack on labor that barely worked 60 years ago when full employment was some sort of reasonable goal. It's a ludicrous superstition now - better to just institute a basic income, abolish minimum wage entirely, and let employers pay people whatever they want.
