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==Counterproductivity==

[[Ivan Illich]] describes a similar process by which industry develops a technology past the point of usefulness, so much so that industry's efforts effectively sabotage its stated aims. Thus, according to Illich, intensive schooling stupefies, high speed transport immobilizes, and hospitals kill, among others. <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/e738902011-001|title=Suicide Prevention Only One Aspect of Improving Health|last=Weichl|first=Scott|date=2009|website=PsycEXTRA Dataset|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref> Illich believed that industry, past this critical threshold, the product of industry served to deprive people of their native ability ofto subsistencesubsist, to learn, move and heal autonomously, leaving them more ignorant, isolated and sick than if industry had not reached beyond the threshold of overdevelopment. Decay in the human condition appears because under industrial overdevelopment, "people are trained for consumption rather than for action, and at the same time their range of action is narrowed." Counterproductivity has been called "probably Illich’s most original contribution".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://infed.org/mobi/ivan-illich-deschooling-conviviality-and-lifelong-learning/|title=Ivan Illich: deschooling, conviviality and lifelong learning {{!}} infed.org|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref>

==Environmental implications==