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If you're content with your current income, you're not going to work longer hours to make more very often.

The Unintended Consequences Of Raising Minimum Wage To $15 (forbes.com)

These things sound good but have unintended obvious consequences that should be considered.

As I said, the highest MW in our history is under $12.  What is magical about $15?  Is it not worthwhile to consider consequences and pose other figures?  Maybe $20 would be better.

$15 an hour was already a compromise, due to the inflation/stagnant wages for 2+ decades.  It's still not "enough," but it beats slave poverty wages.

$15 an hour was already a compromise, due to the inflation/stagnant wages for 2+ decades.  It's still not "enough," but it beats slave poverty wages.

A compromise with what?  It would be the highest MW in the history of the country by over $3 an hour.  With whom did someone compromise and why?

What figure would be "enough"?  Let's consider that instead.  It's as viable as $15 for most Republicans.

Is the minimum wage meant to be a living wage?

Should it be?

Again, this rings as tone-deaf.
It's not about ambition, it's about survival.  People work more hours because they NEED to. 

my daughter would probably work more hours if she wasn't living in my basement

I always worked more hours because I wanted more money, not because I needed it to survive.

there's a certain percentage of the population that just aren't motivated to work.  Some at all, some not very much.

ambitious folks don't worry about minimum wage, they are making more than that.  They also don't worry about 30 or 40 hours, they are working that much per week or more.
just making enough to survive isn't what I'd call ambition

The 30 hour mandate comes from Obamacare which is a Federal Law so it includes Iowa. 

I'm not sure how it works for servers and bartenders because I don't handle payroll for any servers or bartenders so that is not in my wheelhouse. 

I'd have to check, but I thought the 30-hour thing only applied to businesses with >=50 employees. 

my daughter would probably work more hours if she wasn't living in my basement

I always worked more hours because I wanted more money, not because I needed it to survive.

More anecdotes.  Great.  Might as well be talking to a wall.