Having worked in both, I personally prefer "race to the top" jurisdictions to "race to the bottom" ones.

hog feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23291595

meat packing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23367350

california effect (in passing): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23829872

(Incidentally, the germans have recently had their own meatpacking Covid problems, due to having copied the US efficient conveyer belt model while subcontracting to eastern european firms to skirt domestic labour laws. Those loopholes have reportedly been closed.)