That you're a fucking idiot. Companies who don't upgrade their technology get left behind by those that do. Companies that innovate destroy companies that don't. Innovation and technology are pushed by competition, not government intervention. You can try attributing better factory conditions to government if you want, and relate it to the industrial revolution if you'd like, but the fact is that any company who doesn't innovate and doesn't upgrade gets left behind and eventually collapses, even now. A free market provides all the innovation you need and workers and the economy benefit. For your logic to hold, no one would have innovated past what the government required for safety standarRAB, but they do, so you're wrong and a retard.