Ok, now we just need someone with more influence than me to say it.
This is my fantasy. SOme event gets national attention on a slow news day and someone with a big following says “fuck it, don't come to work”. And in my fantasy it sweeps social media. And Fox news is calling everyone a communist.
Dow futures fall 800 points but by 10:am the Dow actually falls 1000 points. An emergency session of congress results in a screaming match.
The impact emboldens everyone who was on the fence.
Tuesday even more people stay home. Large employers start promising big raises but social media pressures everyone to hold fast. Strikes start to launch in other developed countries.
Congress gets together a second time and passes a national min wage of $20 indexed to CPI so it goes up automatically in the future.