People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.

Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.

Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.

Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to, not cutting jobs. Of course: because they need staff to make their businesses run!

The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.

When workers make more money, they respond by being more productive in their jobs and are less likely to leave, reducing turnover costs. This puts money in business' pockets, and workers also then have more money to spend in the local economy.

People decide what markets should do - they are not a force of nature.