That is moving the goal posts, the comment I was responding to was "15 USD is still less than if you had adjusted the original minimum wage for inflation, so come on. "

Given the context this would be the standard model upon which dollars are adjusted for inflation over time, tools like usinflationcalculator.com make this easy to factor in what that would be

If you want to shift the debate to "what is inflation" that is fine, but that is not the debate I am having in this comment thread