DISCUSSION: The paper mill provides an example of a hypothetical situation where a corporation would legally makes a profit and hurts society.
This contradicts the economists, who said that corporate profit always helps society (lines 33-34).
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- The author only describes this situation as a “possibility”.
- CORRECT. This hypothetical situation is a counterexample to the economists’ claims that profits always help the public.
- The author never says whether it would be difficult to force corporations not to do scummy things.
- Same as A. The situation is only hypothetical. The author wanted to show that it’s possible for corporations to act badly.
- This is too extreme. The author didn’t say that corporations always act badly. The author just wanted to show that they could.
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