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It is by design.
If the minimum wage would be inflation adjusted, then businesses would need to compete on innovations, good products and efficient processes instead of cutting costs at the laborer.
This would either lead to an inflation loop or permanently lower profits to be extracted for the inept capitalists. Who is going to finance the campaigns then?