Business, even in Silicon Valley, means someone buys something other than stock in the company. NO ONE is a business without customers. You are are a business guy. An Entrepreneur. (yeah you!) Socialism is NOT your enemy. Socialism creates a greater likelihood of success for you because other people become safer. People spend their time trying to do better things instead of desperate things. Socialism ENDS non-participation in the economy. It works something like this: the government issues you kraft mac and cheese. Every day. It never gives you any other meal. You won't die, but you won't like it either. If you want better stuff to eat, work and buy it. Health care! The government supplies the medical equivalent of mac and cheese. If you want better health, work and buy it.
Socialism functions like the rules in a game. Game theory can only be applied if people have the means to stay in the game. It sets the economic floor. Your only guarantee is a meager survival--but also the tools to help you do better. Socialism recognizes the benefit of modest, limited UNselfish behavior. As things work out in the real world, that UNselfish behavior is TOTALLY selfish. People try to do better things like own a home and start families and ... "I should buy a boat."
The tech world is particularly well suited to benefit from raising the minimum wage. For you--and every other business--it's simple. Do you want people to have 2 bucks to spend with you or 10 bucks. does this violate libertarian principles. Oh, fuck yeah, but the results that we get now really suck.
There are a lot of naysayers about the minimum wage, but they are wrong. Wrong as in incorrect, not morally wrong. The culture of US business (including libertarian thought) operates on pure selfishness--which is the shitty strategy in game theory. I don't even care if that is immoral--because I simply know that it is not effective. Also, it's totally easy to see the harm over time.
If you look at game theory there are different states of equilibrium possible if the parties make rational choices. Good things happen for all parties in the equilibrium states--and shitty things happen if any party chooses ONLY the selfish choice. Business in the US cannot make rational choices because they have outside demands or are simply too short sighted. They need the benefits that are created by their own cooperation--but cooperation is against other rules that guide their lives. BUSINESS NEEDS THE BENEFIT OF A HIGHER MINIMUM WAGE: MORE CUSTOMERS; MORE DOLLARS. That Socialist Minimum Wage supplies the one thing that business people can never choose--a cost for labor that is high enough to be someone else's surplus. That surplus is the source of your actual sales. The US could have a great game called prosperity--but that doesn't happen without wages. The minimum wage is a simple existing tool that can raise the floor of the economy literally tomorrow. More customers.
Minimum Wage equals customers for you. And possibly it is a little immoral to have someone clean your toilet... and then they can't afford rent.
tl;dr: do you want to sell 2 dollar apps or 10 dollars apps?
OK, so... now ask me about the minimum wage and technological unemployment. G'head!