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Topic
#2866

Resolution: Automation and technology continue to increase quality of life

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After 3 votes and with 18 points ahead, the winner is...

fauxlaw
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3
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One week
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Description

Resolution: Automation and technology continue to increase quality of life

Description: Automation and technology have the effect of increasing human quality of life rather than reducing the hopes and consequences of living. This means that society, as a whole, is benefited, not displaced by the rise of technical advances into automation of tasks formerly performed by human labor. In fact, the net result of automated technology is, at least an expansion of the labor force into new tasks not performed by automation. This may entail retraining of workers to perform different tasks than once performed, but the net effect is an increase in the labor force, an increase in the acquisition of higher education, and society’s quality of life.

Definitions: All definitions provided are sourced from the OED.

Automation: the action or process of introducing automatic equipment or devices into a manufacturing or other process or facility.

Technology: the branch of knowledge dealing with the mechanical arts and applied sciences.

Continue: to carry on, keep up, maintain

Increase: to become greater in size, amount, duration, or degree

Quality: The nature, kind, or character of something. The standard or nature of something as measured against other things of a similar kind; the degree of excellence possessed by a thing. In the framework of this debate: a higher degree of excellence than had without automation.

Life: [for a human]: sentient existence; living; being aware of living, and a sense of variable qualities of that existence.

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[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w24196/w24196.pdf

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@ILikePie5

Thank you for voting

@ RationalMadman:
Thank you for voting

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@Undefeatable

Thank you for voting

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@fauxlaw

Your welcome. Looking forward to it

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@Bringerofrain

Thank you, my friend, for accepting the debate. Here's hoping for a good, friendly competition. This is, after all, a head game. Play well and have fun.

I have modified the Resolution and Description to reflect "quality of life" instead of "living standards," making appropriate definition changes to match

The issue with standard of living is that it doesn't take into consideration things like happiness to name just one. Quality of life would allow more room to debate things like happiness as well as some arguments on suffering I won't get into unless we debate

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@Bringerofrain

I'll consider that change and get back to you. Off the top, it seems agreeable, so that is how I'm leaning.

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@fauxlaw
@Undefeatable

If he changes standard of living to quality of life I might accept..

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@fauxlaw

this looks just as rigged for pro as my flat earth debate. Nobody's gonna win unless they try some simulation-ism space time argument :P