I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.
Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.
Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about workers as customers to be cultivated.
I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left wing? How did that become "leftie?" That doesn't seem leftie to me. That seems common sense.