California $20 min wage. How to ruin your economy and have people cheer for it

So California just signed in a new law that fast food chains with X number of locations in California has to pay at least $20 an hour.  The law also creates a new council to “regulate” the fast food industry and can later on bump that higher if they so choose.

Of course it was all done in the name of “compassion” for fast food workers whom they claim cannot carve out a life at that rates below that.  And they showed you a lady who has worked at Burger King for 20yrs who cheered it on.  They told you that anyone making less than $20 an hour would be below the poverty line with families of 4 or more.

Makes people feel like good is being done.  That is until their Whopper is $20.  Their job gets replaced by a robot.  They have to get a second job because they lost their fulltime status and now they no longer have insurance or benefits.

It seems to me that politicians have a formula now. They find a handful of cases and say, look at these folks.  They are not doing well.  We must help them.  But the help is generally an intentional power/money grab in the name of those few folks but to the detriment of everyone else.