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I feel people really don't understand why minimum wage increases and what it should increase/decrease to in relation. Minimum wage increases because prices of basic needs have increased (these are the things we have a right to have, food and water). Minimum wage should have been adjusted with inflation but it clearly wasn't in the US. My country is doing the same now with the last minimum wage increase this past month being to 11 dollars an hour (then again it cost more to live in Canada than it does the US) but now it's being tied to inflation. .