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/^t/A young woman wakes up in the morning, turns the radio on and hears about a new invention. A genius has decided that people wait too long at supermarket check-outs, and so he has developed a considerable computer to make people's lives easier. It all involved weighing, tearing off special little tags from each item one buys, and feeding them into a machine and weighing again. This information recalled the woman a time when there were a few long queues in supermarkets and people got more pleasure from shopping. The woman started to think about the price of progress and came into conclusion that automation causes more problems than it solves. The woman could think about three main problems caused by automation: isolation from society, laziness and wealth differences.