Mass Production requires Mass Consumption and the wages of the workers create demand.
The demand for goods creates jobs.
Great Industrialists. like Ford, knew this. Ford paid he workers in his first factory twice the going rate.
Paying your workers well does cut into profits but it's good for the economy, and that's good for the long term goals of the company.
It's called an "economic multiplier". The well paid workers buy goods and services and that creates other jobs and opportunities for entrepreneurs,
This cycle created American prosperity and power.
The United States is the largest market in the world for pretty much everything.
If you want to sell a product here. Make it here with American union workers.
What?
You say you cannot make the ungodly profits you have become accustomed to if you don't make your overpriced gym shoes with malnourished Asian child labor.
Then I suggest you try to sell your overpriced gym shoes to malnourished Asian children.
The end to "free trade" and government regulated partnership between capital and labor could restore the American standard of living and maintain it.