The best argument for raising the minimum wage to $15 comes from @JoeBiden: No American who works 40 hours a week should live in poverty.

Your point is well taken.

Wrote a paper in jr college that calculated the economic value of my mother's work in raising nine children in an era of cloth diapers and glass baby bottles. It was millions, and much more in constant dollars; and hadn't yet learned multiplier effects. Should try to dig that up.