[CryptoPunk]

>>We've tried this. People died over it. We enacted laws to prevent it from happening, so that labor can stand on equal ground with capital.

This is simply not true, except in the most pedantic and disingenuous sense.

There were violent strikes by some groups of unionized workers, that broke the law, and that resulted in some deaths, if that's what you're referring to. There is absolutely no reason this thuggery should have been rewarded by giving the strikers what they demanded, which was the abrogation of the company owners' private property and contracting rights.

As it happened, US industry, and with it US wages, grew much faster before society gave into the unions, when the US was still a free market where people had a sacred right to freely contract.