The minimum wage cooks of a successful restaurant refuse to join the wait staff in a strike to improve wages. The cooks feel they are being paid well enough, even though the restaurant owner made $2 million in profit last year. This situation would exemplify which of Karl Marx's concepts?

A. class consciousness
B. dialectical change
C. proletariat
D. false consciousness


Answer: D

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