Increasing the costs artificially from $5 to $15 to make automation for $10 worthwhile is not a good thing on its own. Before you spent $5 in labor and resource

Increasing the costs artificially from $5 to $15 to make automation for $10 worthwhile is not a good thing on its own. Before you spent $5 in labor and resources to make that product, now you are spending $10 to do it in an automated way which just means you halved the efficiency to produce that product. If there is no externalized gain worth $5 this is a bad thing.