Sociologist Herbert Gans claimed that inequality benefits
a. everyone by making society more productive.
b. rich people by ensuring there is a supply of poor people willing to do almost any job, no matter how unpleasant.
c. bureaucrats by expanding government assistance programs.
d. corporations because poor people are a profitable market.
Ans: b. rich people by ensuring there is a supply of poor people willing to do almost any job, no matter how unpleasant.
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