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The author concludes that increasing productivity in the economy as a whole may help business owners, but it will increase unemployment. She supports this by saying that increasing productivity in a corporation means increasing profit, which often means reducing the number of employees in that corporation.
This is the cookie-cutter part to whole flaw, where the argument assumes that what is true of a part of something is also true about the whole. Here, the author assumes that increasing productivity in the whole economy will lead to more unemployment, simply because increasing productivity in a single corporation can reduce the number of employees there.
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The author never claims that politicians should abandon the goal of increased economic productivity. She just notes that they often overlook the drawbacks of this goal.
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The author assumes that what is true of a single corporation is also true of the economy as a whole. Just because increasing productivity in a corporation may reduce employees doesn’t mean that increasing productivity in the economy will increase unemployment.
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The author doesn’t generalize about all politicians based on the actions of a few. She just notes that politicians often advocate for increased economic productivity while ignoring its drawbacks. This also seems to be a factual, contextual statement, not an unfair criticism.
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The author never assumes that increased economic productivity is always more important than the interests of workers or business owners. She points to unemployment as a drawback of increased productivity, but she never makes any claims about which one is more important.
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The author’s argument is vulnerable because she assumes that a drawback of increasing productivity at a single corporation also applies to increasing productivity in the economy as a whole, not because she doesn’t address all potential drawbacks and benefits.
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