[lsiebert]

Borderlands competes with Amazon, so a 10% price hike means they are much less competitive, plus books have prices on their covers from the publisher.

You make several statements I can take issue with, but the most interesting is to imply that if someone else makes more money, other people are devalued.

I think that's an interesting argument in a world where executive compensation has grown continually, and workers income has decreased, while GDP has continued to shrink. http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth-ann... (click max, then trend under the bar graph button)

I urge you to look at the non partisan Congressional Budget Office's discussion of a federal minimum wage hike. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/44995