L2006/6-2-10

Megan: People pursue wealth beyond what their basic needs require only if they see it as a way of achieving hihg status or prestige.

Channen: Not every body htinks that way. After all, money is the universal medium of exchange. So, if you have enough of it, you can exchange it for whatever other material goods you may need or want even if you are indifferent to what others think of you.

Megan and Channen disagree over whether

A) people ever pursue wealth beyond what is required for their basic needs

B) it it rirrational to try to achieve high status or prestige in the eyes of one's society

c) the pursuit of monetary wealth is irrational only when it has no further purpose

D) it is rational to maximaize one's ability to purchase whatever one wants only when the motive for doing so is something other than the desire for prestige

E) the motive for pursuinng wealth beyond what one's basic needs require is ever anything other than  the desire for prestige or high status

the correct answer is E).

i think Megan is definitely disagree with this point. But whether Chanenn agree with it?

我觉得Channen 并没有完全反对Megan, "Not everybody think that way" 说明她认为有的人think that way ,有的人不think that way。 而E) "every anything other than..." 是完全的否定Megan，说明没有人那么想，Channen 怎么会agree E）呢？

谢谢！

Chanenn thinks "some people think that way and some don't", but questions asks about Chanenn's opinion, not Chanenn's opinion about what others think. She difinitely disagree wtih it.

Thank you for reply! But 如果Chanenn 和Magan都 disagree with it. why should we choose E?  Should we choose one that Magan(Chanenn) agree and Channen(Magan) disagree?

Megan: People pursue wealth beyond what their basic needs require only if they see it as a way of achieving high status or prestige

why do Megan argee with it?  I consider E is a reverse.

thank you iceman.it's really helpful.