"Every worker deserves a living wage, and that starts somewhere around $15 per hour"
Well Joshua, if you're going to force employers to pay these kind of starting wages, then all of us who have been in the workforce for years and who have paid our dues working our way up deserve an immediate large raise. It's not right that we be punished by being left out and only making a few more dollars an hour than these starting jobs.
Once we do get our large raises, the cost of living will jump to compensate and then we will all be right back where we started from.