Even if we accept the demand-side economics argument (it's definitely losing favor: the old "Henry Ford paid his workers more so they could buy his cars" claptrap is dead and buried), it doesn't apply to this case because the same amount of raw dollars is being paid to workers, it's just being paid to a larger number of them when wages are lower and more people are hired to do formerly uneconomic labor. Fans of Keynes should cheer about this, because lower income workers spend a higher portion of their wages on goods and services (higher-income workers tend to invest or save their earnings to a larger degree). By their logic, if we want to drive up demand for goods, more workers earning less is better than fewer workers earning more.