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It would be clearer with a comma after "increases". Without that it's a garden-path sentence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence

You read "increases" as a transitive verb, and then reach the "collapses" at the end of the sentence and have to re-parse the whole thing when you realize it was really intransitive.


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