Sometimes I wish that proposals to hike the minimum wage would have a carve out for businesses that give up half their equity to their employees, where each employee gets one share of half the profits per hour worked in lieu of increasing wages. I think such a proposal would seriously undermine basically all of the popular rhetorical strategies used by the status quo to fight minimum wage increases, and I don’t really know what minimum wage opponents would be able to say to contest the idea without sounding transparently elitist to even the most politically disengaged average individual