According to the Text

question 2

Multiple Choice

According to the text

• A) what's good for major U.S. corporations always turns out to be good for the public.
• B) capitalism does not require a constant expansion of commodity production.
• C) capitalism does require a constant expansion of commodity production, but this expansion has no adverse affects.
• D) capitalism does require a constant expansion of commodity production, and this expansion frequently collides with the fact that the world has finite resources.
• E) of all possible economic systems, capitalism is the most environmentally friendly.

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