...and if a company can't afford to pay their lowest paid workers a few dollars more when the highest paid CEOs are paid 500 to 1000 times more than them, then maybe the CEOs don't deserve to be paid that much.
Maybe there's a wealth gap in society that doesn't deserve to exist, and that's the real problem.
It's funny cause lots (not all) of the small business owners complaining wouldn't have a problem if they worked their own business instead of just hiring someone to do it for them and getting paid a ton to just own it.
Good, then the market will be freed for an other company to take its place, which can pay its workers a decent wage, so they can rehire all those workers whom lost their job.
A business doesn't have the right to exist, only the privilege.
And that privilege expires if it doesn't add anything positive to society.