Myth: Eliminating jobs boosts productivity, creates better jobs

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The philosophy that guides businesses many of us do not know:
“In manufacturing, you measure success by the number of jobs you eliminate, not the number of jobs you create” - Neil Reymonds.

Astounding Myth
“It’s not useful to lament the lost jobs. Through increased productivity, lost jobs finance new jobs-most of them paying higher wages” - Neil Reymonds.

This article lays it all bare. Quite a frank confession!!
However, what this article does not tell us is the level of job intensification per capita of the reorganised tasks. They also do not tell us how many people have been underemployed, underpaid, exploited or threatened because of the existence of abundant reserve labour force; how benefits are being reduced and in some instances disappear for workers that remain and the trend is to put workers on contract and part time basis; trade unions are being dismantled at an alarming rate. In short, economic rights of workers are trampled with little regard for economic rights.
Why do we cry about political rights when we cannot get economic rights? We are told that economic rights are higher-level rights that are negotiable as opposed to political rights that are fundamental and therefore not negotiable. I argue that economic rights are not negotiable and are at the same level with all other rights because no one can claim political rights when they do not have economic rights. They would be dead anyway! We do not eat political rights. Rather, we should see these rights as equally critical and mutually reinforcing.