[IshKebab]

It may be true that paying workers better hurts them less than other less automated businesses, which gives them a competitive advantage (assuming they succeed in raising the federal minimum wage).

However, this does affect 350,000 employees today, and that is a lot of employees.

Also the fact that they have automated many of their lower paid jobs away is really irrelevant - they did that anyway even when their wage was lower. They could have kept automating jobs away and paid them very low wages. The fact that they aren't is definitely a good thing.