text: Agree with all of those.  Although on #1, not by imposing higher minimum wage laws, but rather by enacting policies that promote economic growth and employment.  
  
  Supply and demand should always be the natural determiner of compensation level, not artificial price controls (price of labor, in this case).  But there are things the government can do to promote more demand.  And when there's more demand for labor than supply, the price will go up the right way (naturally instead of artificially).    
  
  #'s 2, 3, and 4 (plus a number of other policy changes) will automatically beget #1.  And #1 will beget #5, as the decision to automate is nearly always a byproduct of rising labor costs.