What road map do you envision

I envision workers using this news as an organizing tool to form unions and bargain for higher than $25/hr, regardless of whether it happens.

Direct action pay cash

THE gop has largely convinced thier own base that higher wages =higher prices.

they get more good publicity by raising the MEDICAID/care income cap, where you have a max income on which you can receive "
recieve free healthcare" or reapplying the covid-area susidies to the ACA.

There is just no single right answer for everyone.

Yes there is, its above 7.40 and likely about 15 to 20. To give an example in Canada the federal min wage is $15 loonies an hour, and like your states the cost of living varies wildly between provinces and territories. To help (its a lack luster help) we do generally give tax breaks and sometimes money to the more rural areas to off set the higher cost of goods (you guys do the same in Alaska fyi). To drag out such a silly, tired and dusty line of reasoning in light of the us not being special is a choice.

Sometimes I think Americans don’t know how democracy works.

As not an american I am almost certain you don't know how a real democracy works. A two party system is not democratic and majority are not healthy long term, if you want proof look at the us and the uk more recently. Coalitions are common and more democratic the world over.

It's regular salaries that eat into those, and that's what they're trying to protect.

It's one way to craft a publicly recognizable party ideology that the democratic party has failed to build up these last few decades. The we're not republicans, we looks and sound more professional doesn't work. Something like this is a major improvement. If it makes it to the floor for a vote, which democrats and republicans will vote against or abstain. We should want that for potential future primary challengers and be encouraging these

Great way to get out of bein' criticized.

We all work at companies, the executives aren’t doing anything earth shattering. Most executives seem to be running the playbook of “give the customer less and charge them more to increase profits”. Wow, what innovation!

I would love for someone to be able to point out some concrete brilliant ideas that an executive actually had that went from “vague bullshit” to execution without getting worked and reworked and reworked by a bunch of normal employees until it was actually viable.

Steve Jobs made the iPhone, oh by himself, did he design the chips and write the software? Sure the vision is great, but for every iPhone there are a thousand CEOs that basically keep the lights on an already functioning company and raise the price. Oversee a rebrand. Go on the news and talk up their company.

And they’d have you believe that that’s worth 300-400x what a regular employee.

That every day they are coming in and providing more benefit than a worker does in an entire year. It’s the most obvious bullshit we’ve ever been asked to swallow

We live in a time where democrats do nothing but act appalled, corporations control politics, corporations keep getting bigger, consumer prices increase year after year, healthcare premiums constantly cost more and employee benefits keep getting more expensive every year. What gives you the idea corporations are going to let politicians triple minimum wage? If that happens it will have a ripple effect where higher paying job positions will want a raise because why should someone making an entry level wage be paid the same as a job position with a lot more responsibility?