A good example is Nuehoff. They were a major processor and a major brand name. I'm sure they had many processing facilities but I recall the Dallas plant and the details of it shutting down and the employees trying to restart it. You don't think old man Nuehoff and his family didn't make a killing?
Today, you may think the wage rate is too low, but these companies pay much better than anything else around them.
And all those people are happy with free market economics?