If you cannot pay your workers a decent amount, perhaps you should not have your small business. Working for a small business shouldn't mean sacrificing your ability to buy food. Offer something better than the large places.
Maybe you can help them by getting them food at lower prices. Just a thought.
Now, if there were a real safety net - UBI, or something else that gives enough to live a normal life and afford a computer, internet, food, shelter, and reasonable hobbies - well, then, we can reconsider. Until we have choice with viable options - including not working for exploitative employers - then we might be able to do such things.