[adjkant]

Sorry, to clarify, I mean a minimum wage increase generally as a policy. Specifics needed for nuance of course taking into account COL by location and economic climate. Again, I agree UBI via corporate profit taxation would be much more efficient.

> but prevents upward mobility from the experience people would gain in those lower-value jobs

You can see my other threads here but I would love to hear about these jobs with valuable experience that need to pay under any reasonable minimum wage that would not be already existing internship programs. I just can't imagine what these are.

As to the rest, I just don't believe that area is as narrow as you describe.

> jobs where there isn't effective competition for labor

I really don't think you have experienced/have an idea of what it is like to be anywhere near unemployed and "unskilled". Nearly all of retail/warehouse/gig/delivery jobs experience little to no competition since they all go as low as possible and say "take it or leave it" because they know the alternative in unemployment. Competition only exists today really in skilled job markets.