What the left really wants is to help their union buddies whose contracts are based upon some multiple of the minimum wage. If the side affect is businesses shutting down, so what. They will tell their statist brethren to allow unionization of their workforce if they wish to stay in business. Socialism/communism/totalitarianism is on the way for the great state of California.
That's been the plan ever since Brown's first governorship back in the 1970s. California's well on its way to becoming Venezuela North.