This has nothing with minimum wage which is increasing to $20 for everyone in Seattle on January 1st and isn’t triggering a wave of fast food layoffs. This is just typical corporate cost cutting.
I see headlines like this and my first thought is how Elon Musk spent $43B to force people to read his bigoted tweets instead of literally anything else.
It's on the roadmap (https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap) - I gather that doing it _properly_ (requiring consent, working sensibly with non-Mastodon ActivityPub things, etc) is somewhat non-trivial.
But yeah, very much my most-looked-forward-to feature. I certainly understand the argument that it can increase toxicity, but requiring users to opt into being quotable should help there, and a lot of use on Twitter was non-toxic.