for question 4, why isnt the answer B? it clearly states in the first sentence "predictability, calculability and control through technology..... answer b would coincide with that exact meaning. it says nothing about accommodations...
For question 1, why isn't "reduce the cost of wages and benefits" the answer when in paragraph 3 it talks about how the organization can obtain more from the employees for the money it pays them?
@@GuitarLvr21 Same. Simply put, it is clearly a more EFFICIENT use of money and resources. All the arguments about uniformity are far-fetched imo. The uniformity tied specifically to the example of houses (again, for the sake of efficiency...). Stripping autonomy, and control via technology has so little to do with uniformity, especially compared to the rational explanation of efficiency that is supported by multiple ways (not to mention seems to be backed by not only the author, but real life practice, and just logic itself as well). So annoying
For question 2, I would have said A instead of C as paragraph 3 suggests increased age increases resistance to "procedures" and paragraph 7's last line suggests the more regimented our lives are, the more we long for change or are resistant to routine.
Yup, I don't think anything in the passage implies that people are willing to allow themselves to be treated as interchangeable. If anything, the disdain for fast food jobs and cookie-cutter housing would suggest the opposite. In any case, mass produced fast food and housing have one common driver: low cost. The most correct answer to this as far as I am concerned is B. The reason junk food and shoddy housing persists is people's expressed preference for them for cost reasons; the market supplies what people demand, and people demand McDonald's and subdivisions because that is what they can afford. If they could afford fine dining or mansions, they would purchase those and mass produced food and housing wouldn't exist. I may be guilty of "using information from the outside", but common sense and prevailing wisdom trumps anything the instructor is inferring from the content of the passage.
Yeah, I think that’s a use of outside information and biases. As these are both seemingly popular markets, it would appear that even with the desire for quality and uniqueness (and the housing even mentions that as a part of ‘upscale’ housing) that majority of folks are willing to give that up for ease of life.
