Assignment 08

SUS1501 – Sustainability and Greed

Student Number: 67458408
Date: 12/08/2021
Teaching Assistant Name:

Declaration:

By submitting this assignment, I implicitly declare that this is my own work.

I am aware that if ANY unacknowledged copying is detected in ANY part of this assignment, I
will get 0 (zero) for the entire assignment.

INSTRUCTIONS:
 Read the “1. Introduction” section below;
 Fill in your assignment contributions under the relevant headings 2-5 below;
 Save the file as a Word document with a short name (myUnisa will reject files with long names);
 Submit this file into the Assignments tool on myUnisa;
 Take a screen grab of the final submission acknowledgement on myUnisa and save this
somewhere safe in case of any disputes:
 Check under the Assignments tool that there is a date in the “Processed” cell for the SUS1501
Assignment 8.

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1. INTRODUCTION (Written for you by Prof Eccles)

The following piece is extracted from the discussion forum of Assignment 02:Do
the right thing!. These are the direct words of K du Preez and his/her feelings
and opinion in terms of the argument.
“ What do you think about van Dijk earning ZAR 1.9 billion?
I do not agree with the earnings he received. I do not believe that any one person
should be able to accumulate such an extravagant amount of money. I believe
that there should be a global law, that every cent earned after R99 million should
be given to government or into a fund - the taxes on the lower classes can be less
and the government would have more funding for infrastructure and improving
the country.
The fact that people are allowed to hoard wealth is unthinkable to me, there are
so many problems in the world and so many suffer, and yet, some people make
millions. Quoted by Sol Luckman “You need money to make money”, so Van Dijk
already had to have money in order to be able to invest in the shares of the
company.”
“Why do you think this?
2. A BAD ARGUMENT
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What you need to do in this section is go back to the Assignment 2 discussion forum and find a
submission from one of your fellow students who presented the opposite opinion to what you think.

In other words, if you think there is no problem with someone earning R 1.9 billion in a year then choose
an assignment where the student argues that there is a problem. Or if you think there is a problem,
choose an assignment where the student argues that there is no problem.

We want you to copy the section of this assignment where the student answered the questions: “2.
What do you think about Bob van Dijk earning ZAR 1.9 billion?”and “3. Why do you think this?” and
paste it here.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU PUT THIS IN INVERTED COMMAS (“) AND THAT YOU PUT THE NAME OF THE
STUDENT WHO SUBMITTED IT
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3. THE PREMISES AND THE CONCLUSION

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Here we want you to:
1. List the premises (explicit and implicit) that your fellow student used in drawing their
conclusion
2. Restate the conclusion
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4. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE PREMISES
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Here you need to:
1. Evaluate the acceptability of the premises;
2. Evaluate the validity of the argument
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5. MY BETTER ARGUMENT
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Here you need to:
1. State your opinion on van Dijk’s earning R 1.9 billion;
2. List the premises that you think support your opinion
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