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The way you protect workers is to create the most appealing place to employ them for people starting businesses.

Otherwise, those businesses will go to somewhere with a less regulated environment and ship it in.

The only way to truly protect workers is to increase the cost of bypassing the regulations that you want to protect them so that operating within the regulations is the best choice for the business.

This is a disconnect that we see in numerous topics nationally, like pushes to raise the minimum wage which just result in lots of job losses while companies relocate. So instead you see politicians push for a national increase to the minimum wage, so that there’s nowhere else in the US to relocate to because they are all equally expensive.

The moment you start creating policies where the first concern is making sure people can’t escape, it should be an indicator to rethink the policy.