So the funny thing I've noticed over the years with talks about minimum wage increase. I can remember back in the day when the target goal was $10. Everyone arguing against a $10/hour minimum wage was making the inflation argument... And everyone arguing against it happened to be in a job that made more than $10/hour. There were a LOT more naysayers then because way more people on the board made more than $10/hour.
Now the target goal is $15/hour and we still get the inflation argument but it isn't as vocal or as vitrolic. Why? Way more people make around or less than $15/hour than around or less than $10/hour. There's not as much pushback because a lot of the people this would help make more than $10/hour but less than $15/hour. They're not concerned as much about inflation anymore because their personal wages will rise to match their expected inflation.
The people who are still pushing against a minimum wage increase arguing inflation are people who make higher wages (probably in skilled jobs). Not everyone who makes more money, obviously some of us understand basic economics, but I guarantee you all the posters in here bitching about raising minimum wage to $15/hour make more than that... They don't actually give a fuck about the economy, other people, or any of that shit. They just care about what they perceive as an attack on their personal buying power because they think that their own wages will not go up to match the inflation they think it will bring. Its more of the "fuck you, got mine" mentality we see out of these sociopaths who couldn't care less if people starve and die as long as they can stuff their faces with Taco Bell and spill Mountain Dew in their new Land Rover. I 100% guarantee you if the proposal was to raise minimum wage above their current pay rate they'd flip the script on the spot.
EDIT: And as a result we can post as many case studies and as much data showing how wages have not risen at a rate that matched inflation leading the minimum wage being far below the inflation line as we want, it won't change their minds. Logic cannot make a dent in an emotional argument that refuses to look to math or science for answers