Replying to your post, if there were less workers there would be less consumers and then less consumers means less demand for workers.
This is gonna sound communisty but a better way to increase wages would be to avoid extraordinary wealth accumulation. There are finite resources, finite workers and thus finite surplus in this world, so if one person gets too much, that means the rest will have much less.
Love the brainstorm energy and solution oriented mindset. Few suggestions:
Lets make the game mandatory and nonviolent, except the loser becomes the new kevin and the winner gets blown up with giant lasers.
The kevin system will push people not to be the last one and the laser will discourage people from being at the top.
It would create much more homogenous, and equal society with no class wars because everyone would want to be the part of the “middle class”