No new laws are required. The financier, in response, sends in some private mercenaries.
Consumers can enjoy lower prices.
The answer is simple. You assume that workers are like robots who do the same jobs day after day. And you assume that the conditions of the market do not change. As a result, the effects of the robot workers will be the same day after day, year after year. The first thing wrong with this assumption that without supervision and incentives to work, real human beings will not normally act the same as they do with these conditions.