I pretty much told you the exact opposite of that. The initial proposals were to prevent exploitation, including exploitation of adult women. The federal proposals were to make sure consumers, who are generally adults, had money to spend and could survive. You are welcome to disagree with these reasons, but you keep pretending you have some grasp on the historical or economic reasons the minimum wage was established, and you just don't. Again, disagree with why it was established or disagree with it existing, that's great, but stop pretending to have some objective high ground where you understand the purpose and others do not, because the truth is the opposite.