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The author concludes that social inertia plays a greater role in human behavior than the desire for comfort or safety. As evidence, he cites the fact that many historical innovations were resisted by people whose working conditions these innovations would’ve improved.

The author assumes that resisting technological innovation constitutes social inertia. He also assumes that people didn’t resist technological innovation for some reason other than social inertia. Finally, the author assumes that “many examples” of this one phenomenon are enough to draw a claim about the relative power of forces determining human behavior.

Social inertia wasn’t the reason why people resisted technological innovation. They were rightly concerned about losing their jobs.

That “reluctance” sounds like social inertia. Besides, we have no evidence these technological innovations were “challenges.”

This points out an exception. The author, however, doesn’t need his very general conclusion to be true in all historical cases. Social inertia may still be more powerful than the desire for comfort—just not always.

This strengthens the author’s argument. If people adapt easily to gradually implemented technological innovations, but resist other (i.e. rapid) technological innovations, then it would seem social inertia really is outweighing comfort and safety.

If this is true, why are workers resisting? Inertia would seem to be a totally valid hypothesis. We need something that weakens that hypothesis.

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