But the point is that if everyone pays workers less there is no market for anything non-essential you can make. This works if you are making plastic stuff to e

But the point is that if everyone pays workers less there is no market for anything non-essential you can make. This works if you are making plastic stuff to export to the US and you are in China. It doesn't work so well if you are in the US. In essence corporations individually do better if they pay their workers less, but collectively they die.