In theory if we tied the salary of congress to the minimum wage the minimum wage would go up.

In practice the income of a congressperson is tied to their morality. Not their salary.

"y’all know that Congress doesn’t control things like private pensions, 401Ks, or average wages, right?"

This is wrong on so many levels. Let's start with this: Who made pensions and regulates them? Hmmmmmm

Private pensions is in fact something that has frequently been legislated on

And getting paid $250k for being a "guest speaker" sonewhere when it's really just a bribe. Even if congress weren't paid any salary they would still make bank from other sources of revenue.

Its like how DJT took a "$1 presidential salary" or whatever but has made billions doing other things.

If how laws are written isn't the actual source of these problems, please enlighten me on what is?