Economists think that directly tying wages or prices to inflation can cause inflationary spirals. CPI is based on prices, and raising wages will eventually raise prices and CPI, so if you raise wages based on CPI, it can enter a positive feedback loop.

It might be ok if the feedback is slow enough or if the minimum wage influences a macroeconomically insignificant proportion of wages.

They are geologically young: under 1 million years old.

Mostly NixOS unstable. I have one machine still on Arch, but i plan to switch that to NixOS too.