Nope, not if you remove THE problem: federal government’s economic inference and forced higher costs of doing business.
How did America successfully compete with the Middle Ages up to through the 1920’s as the richest and most powerful nation on earth? BY THE FREE MARKET, NOT BY GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE.
Here’s your free market:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history
[Tariffs were the largest (approaching 95% at times) source of federal revenue until the Federal income tax began after 1913]
I suppose we could bring back child labor.
in 1900 18% of workers were children under the age of 16.
25% under the age of 15 ( half under the age of 12) were employed by the cotton mills.
Feds stopped this in the 30’s,