I noticed nobody has answered this OP yet so I will take a crack at it. First, nobody I know is advocating $20 per hour for flipping hamburgers...at least not immediately. When I was a boy, a quart of milk cost 25 cents. Today, even at the ultracheap 99cent store, it costs $1.19. By the way, that milk is a real bargain. Gas then, even premium gas was $.249 per gallon. Today, depending on what week it is, it is pushing $4.00 per gallon. It is not inconceivable that at some time in the future twenty bucks would end up being a basic minimum wage...and that future is not too far off.
The main complaint people like Loren have with raising the minimum wage is the simply the limitations of his Utopian capitalist system that is INCAPABLE OF meeting the needs of all our people. $10 to $15 per hour is not all that unreasonable today, depending on where you are. Loren is defending a system that indeed cannot survive the exigencies of today's world, which incidentally was caused by his Utopian system. It just doesn't work.
Let's get on with the business of redistributing the wealth more fairly and stop listening to foot draggers. It is true that egalitarian solutions to social and environmental problems cannot fit within the framework of Capitalism as it now stands. It restricts demand more and more as it concentrates wealth in fewer and fewer handa. At the same time, the alleged target of Capitalism (continuous economic growth) is not even a remote possibility in a world with limited natural resources. Loren needs to hit the books and show us he is on the side of humanity and quit carping about evil stupid poor people causing all the trouble. Give them some money and they will become a demand. Our environmental solutions are a lot more complicated than that, but we could at least start with a well paid, well nourished and educated population.
People who work for third parties work in part as volunteers.
Third parties are not industries, but rather the largesse of their membership. If a good IP man should volunteer to work for the socialists and accept $13 per hour to make it possible for him to do some political work, then so be it. It really has nothing to do with hypocrisy as Loren would have us believe.