I feel like a lot of people admit that regulations and costs push industries overseas. These people are okay with the outcome. It's completely reasonable to eschew dirty or dangerous industries.
The entire western model of business for the past 500 years has involved shipping the crap work to other places around the world and figuring out how to extract the profits from it.
Yeah, except there's a huge amount of overlap between the people you're describing and the people who are also concerned about global warming and polluting the oceans. And when I say "concerned" I mean perceive it as an existential threat to all human life.
Oh yeah, and they're also concerned about how wages haven't kept up with inflation for the past 40 years.
The entire western model of business for the past 500 years has involved shipping the crap work to other places around the world and figuring out how to extract the profits from it.