80% of business executives: raise the minimum wage

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Or...just pay them more.

Increasing labor costs is unpopular with shareholders and boards. Perhaps executives themselves are powerless to make this decision in most cases.

If the government is the one raising the floor on wages, then the executives can just go to their shareholders and shrug, saying they have to follow the law.

But Superman was saying that the CEOs should just pay their workers more rather than tell the government to force them to.