How would keeping things exactly the same hurt working class people? Making the port more efficient helps business and consumers, but not workers who are continuously ground into the dirt, commanded, and deprived of basic necessities. These workers have a decent job because they have banded together to challenge management through their union.

Unfortunately, making things efficient on management's terms means that workers are fired rather than sharing in the fruits of a more efficient company. Only democratic ownership of the companies by the working class can change this equation. Then improved efficiency would be enacted on the workers' terms and would actually improve the lives of ordinary people.