Our manufacturing facility in the Philippines would hire entire extended families to work there. If any one screwed up the entire family would be fired. Nobody screwed up.
Back when NAFTA was being discussed, I talked with a guy who had a wall full of patent awards in food processing (invented a machine to segment those canned Mandarin oranges).
He invented a machine to de-stem strawberries without bruising them. The U.S. companies wanted to "look it over before buying", i.e. steal the idea. He went to Mexico and bombed there. He told of being in a large warehouse full of tables with 10-12 people of all ages at each one, busily de-stemming strawberries by hand.
The owner was pretty candid as to why he wouldn't buy the machine. He said it would cost more to wash down the machine after use than what it cost to pay the people there - about 200.
The manufacturer asked how that could be with all that cheap water available. The guy said that out of those dozen people at each table, he only paid about half of them. ??? The trick was that in order to get that job, the person had to supply a relative(s) who would work for free.
The manufacturer said that there was a catwalk around the interior, with a couple of guys with loudspeakers haranguing anyone they thought was too slow.
How the Hell can anybody compete with those situations?