I disagree, I think it's well within the power of the largest employers in America to do it, since they obviously have the resources to compensate themselves. But this is a totally revolutionary plan.

Largest employers, sure. I'm not talking about largest employers, I'm talking about the other 90% of employers, that cap out at 1-10 employees total.

Realistically, any employer that can't pay $20/hour is probably fucking over their employees, and should be managed by the workers at the job instead.

Right. So we'd get rid of them, because raising the wage to what you're proposing (or to a lesser extent, even $20/hr) will close down a good number of businesses. Is that better? The assumption would have to be that the laid off workers start their own businesses, and at least some succeed to pay $20/hr to their employees and not go under. It will take a while. So the intermediate recession this will cause, lasting for 5-30 years--what to do about it?