A "living wage"? You mean mandated by government?? That's how you do it??
Ignorance is your conversational defense.
Wage growth can not happen artificially. That's simply a leftist talking point. That's what causes jobs to leave and never to be created in the first place.
You must create economic activity to fully employ everyone and cause their wages to increase. And you don't do that with leftist policies such as open borders and unnecessary costs such as hyper regulation and high taxes.
You may choose to remain ignorant but at least you learned something today.