PT120.S4.Q20

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PrepTest 120 - Section 4 - Question 20

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Investment banker: Democracies require free-market capitalist economies, because a more controlled economy is incompatible with complete democracy. ███ ███████ █████ ████ ██████████ ████████ ███████ ███████ ████████████ ████████████ ███ ████████ ██████ ███ ██████████ ████ █ ████████████ ██████ ██ █ ██████████ █████ ██████ ███ ██████ ███ █████████ ████████████████ ████████ ███████ ███████████ ███ █████████ ██████ ███ █████ ██████

Summary

The banker concludes that people are wrong to criticize some governments’ recent anti-capitalistic measures. His reasoning is that, when a totalitarian government democratizes, it must take certain anti-capitalistic measures.

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The banker’s support is about countries that transition from totalitarian governments to democratic ones. But what if the governments in his conclusion aren’t undergoing such a transition? His argument wouldn’t provide any justification for anti-capitalistic measures in that case.

Therefore, the banker must assume that the nations were formerly totalitarian, and are now becoming democratic.

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Which one of the following ██ ██ ██████████ ████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ████████ █████████

No current government ███ ███████ ██ ████████ █ █████ ██ █████████ ██ ██ ██ ████████ ███ █ ██████████ ██ ██████

The banker has no need to assume this: if a current government had reached a complete state of democracy, it would not contradict any part of his argument.

The more democratic █ ███████ ███ ███ ████ █████████ ███ ███████ ████ ███

The banker is saying that you need a threshold level of deregulation to be a democracy, not that more deregulation always leads to more democracy.

It’s like a Web site requiring a password of 8+ characters to create an account. A 20-character password doesn’t get more access.

The need for ████████ █████████ █████ ███ █████████ ██ █████████ ██████████ ███████████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ █████████ ██ █████ ██████████ ████████████

This is irrelevant: the banker never indicates that economic stability is important to either democracy or free-market economies.

A free-market economy ██ ████████████ ████ █ █████████████ ███████

The banker argues that democracy requires a free-market economy, not that a free-market economy requires a democracy. It’s like he claimed that all oranges are fruits; that doesn’t mean he’s assuming that all fruits are oranges.

The nations whose ████████████████ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████ ██████ ███ ████████████ ███████ ██ ███ ██████ █████

The only circumstances in which the banker has justified anticapitalistic measures are transitions away from totalitarian governments. If these nations were not making such a change, his argument gives no reason not to condemn these measures.

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