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Intellectuals now expect to be the most highly valued people in a society, those with the most prestige and power, and those with the greatest rewards. Intellectuals feel entitled to this. But a capitalist society does not honor its intellectuals. Ludwig von Mises explains the resentment of intellectuals by saying they mix socially with successful capitalists and so have them as a salient comparison group and are humiliated by their lesser status. However, even those intellectuals who do not mix socially are similarly resentful, while merely mixing is not enough--the sports and dancing instructors who cater to the rich and have affairs with them are not noticeably anti-capitalist. Why do intellectuals feel entitled to the highest rewards their society has to offer and resentful when they do not receive this? Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution “to each according to his merit or value.” The market distributes to those who satisfy the perceived market-expressed demands of others. Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that anger.
32 According to the passage, what kind of people are against capitalism?
(A) Intellectuals in general
(B) Intellectuals who mix with capitalists
(C) Intellectuals and capitalists
(D) Intellectuals, workers, and successful businessmen

參考答案

答案：A
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(1),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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