I know this is late in the news cycle, but in case no one else mentioned it, George Will bloviated about the minimum wage on the WaPo op-ed page today, saying,
But the minimum wage should be the same everywhere: $0. Labor is a commodity; governments make messes when they decree commodities' prices.
Will really disgraced himself and everything he professes to believe in by making this statement. Calling labor a commodity, i.e. something that has a price in a market, is the same as calling humanity a commodity. This is the ideology of slavery, including our own present version known as a wage slavery, where one just rents oneself out to the highest bidder and which was sorely resented as the "daring new depravity of the times" by Civil War veterans returning from battle.
Someone George Will may be familiar with had a little bit different take:
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
This is from Abraham Lincoln's First Annual Message to Congress, December 3, 1861.
George Will is odious and loathsome.