Can't. Think. Past. Stage. 1!
All businesses refuse to pay anyone decent wages. Nobody can afford to buy their products/services. End of this fool's straw-businesses.
Instead, people refuse to work for the straw-businesses, start their own companies that pay a decent wage, attract away all the talent, and the straw-businesses can't produce products/services.
That's the problem with ill-conceived gotchas. Easily demolished.