Great!!! Where is it documented? What is the livable wage for LA area employees? Not trying to get on you. But this is the point I am making. Livable wage is just thrown out there and it is hard to get an answer. Remember when the state began raising minimum wage to $15 and that was going to help. In the end it raised prices all around becaus the whole supply chain got raises also. Now we are going towards $20 an hour, and guess what, so does everyone else in the supply chain. Soon $20 won't be enought. LA City wants certain hotel workers to get $25 an hour. Great, now hotel prices go up and no one stays at certain hotels.
What's even the argument you're trying to make here? That because a specific number can't be pinned down for you specifically, we should... what? Do nothing? The cost of everything will rise if we raise pay for people to live with dignity, and we just can't have that, even though it's not people's fault, so let's keep everything the way it is and let more and more people keep drowning and good luck to whoever makes it...?