In many corporations, employees are being replaced by automated equipment in order to save money. However, many workers who lose their jobs to automation will need government assistance to survive, and the same corporations that are laying people off will eventually pay for that assistance through increased taxes and unemployment insurance payments.

The author is arguing that ________________.

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higher taxes and unemployment insurance payments will discourage corporations from automating

replacing people through automation to reduce production costs will result in increases of other costs to corporations

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many workers who lose their jobs to automation will have to be retrained for new jobs

corporations that are laying people off will eventually rehire many of them

corporations will not save money by automating because people will be needed to run the new machines

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Comments

PrateekMay 30

Wait, why is E wrong? Can't machines still need people to run them?

SharhaJun 8

E is tempting but the passage never says people are needed to run the machines. It says workers get replaced, so that's outside the argument.

DanielJun 7

yeah E is just a distractor that sounds plausible but isn't supported. classic trap.

What this question tests

Whether you can complete the last sentence of an argument in a way that is logically consistent with it.

Choosing an option that sounds plausible but contradicts the argument or introduces new information.