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  • but: enervation of labor
    • because: over-reliance of man on machines and computers
  • because: improves living standard
    • but: automation leads to severe unemployment
      • because: competes with human
        • because: replaces manual labour with robots and computers
    • because: increases well-being
    • because: higher employment
      • because: benefits unskilled labor
        • because: unwillingess to take up lower jobs
          • because: higher educational level
      • because: promotes higher skilled and higher paying jobs
        • because: irreplacablity of job
        • but: short term effect
          • because: universalization of automation
  • because: improves living quality
    • because: improves quality of products
      • because: the case of medicine
    • because: more free time
      • because: manual labor is replaced by machinery & computers
      • but: no decrease of workload
        • because: just a shifting of work nature
Automation is beneficial to the development of a society
  • because: automation leads to exponential economic growth
    • because: greatly increases industrial productivity
    • because: reduces production costs
      • but: extra technicians needed
      • but: high implementation costs
        • but: not unique to automation
  • because: improves working environment
    • because: improves working safety
      • because: dangerous work done by automated machinery
    • because: workplaces more enjoyable
      • because: replaces tedious operations
    • because: stability
      • because: reduces errors
        • because: less liable to make mistakes
      • but: consequences of error
        • because: complexity of system
  • but: alienation
    • because: mechanicalization
    • because: reduces communication