Two major sets of ideas are used to justify the high degree of inequality in the contemporary United States. What are these?
a. The beliefs that Christian values are rewarded with success and that “money isn’t everything”
b. The assumptions that differences in wealth are God-given and that nothing can be done to change them
c. The ideas that inequality serves to motivate people to do their best and that success is the result of hard work
d. The beliefs that current wealth differences are only temporary and that sound economic policy will eliminate them
ANSWER:
c
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