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Tom: Executives in this country make around 85 times what the average worker earns. This is an extraordinarily large disparity, and therefore public resentment over the size of executives' salaries is justified.
Martha: Such resentment is not justified, since wealth is created by taking risks and making decisions, actions most people prefer to avoid. Generous rewards for those who choose not to avoid these actions are both fair and necessary.
Tom: I think you misunderstood me. I'm not saying that people resent that there is a large disparity here between executives' salaries and workers' salaries, but rather they resent that it is atypically large: in other countries executives earn only 20 or 30 times what the average worker earns.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point at issue between Tom and Martha?
(A) whether executives in this country make 85 times the average worker's salary
(B) whether public resentment of the size of executive salaries is justified
(C) whether a wage gap between executives and workers is necessary to promote the creation of wealth
(D) whether executives deserve higher salaries than workers deserve
(E) whether executives in this country create as much wealth as do those in other countries
Martha: Such resentment is not justified, since wealth is created by taking risks and making decisions, actions most people prefer to avoid. Generous rewards for those who choose not to avoid these actions are both fair and necessary.
Tom: I think you misunderstood me. I'm not saying that people resent that there is a large disparity here between executives' salaries and workers' salaries, but rather they resent that it is atypically large: in other countries executives earn only 20 or 30 times what the average worker earns.
Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point at issue between Tom and Martha?
(A) whether executives in this country make 85 times the average worker's salary
(B) whether public resentment of the size of executive salaries is justified
(C) whether a wage gap between executives and workers is necessary to promote the creation of wealth
(D) whether executives deserve higher salaries than workers deserve
(E) whether executives in this country create as much wealth as do those in other countries
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context: Martha argues resentment of executive pay disparity is unjustified; Tom clarifies people resent the size of the disparity (too large), not disparity itself.
prethinking: disagreement = whether resentment about executive salaries is justified (Martha: no; Tom: yes, when disparity is excessive).
elimination:
A: specific number not discussed by both → no
B: yes — core dispute is whether resentment is justified → fits
C: Martha discusses necessity, Tom doesn’t engage → no
D: Tom doesn’t deny higher pay altogether → no
E: not discussed → no
answer: B
prethinking: disagreement = whether resentment about executive salaries is justified (Martha: no; Tom: yes, when disparity is excessive).
elimination:
A: specific number not discussed by both → no
B: yes — core dispute is whether resentment is justified → fits
C: Martha discusses necessity, Tom doesn’t engage → no
D: Tom doesn’t deny higher pay altogether → no
E: not discussed → no
answer: B
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