What would Kant probably have said about van Dijk earning ZAR 1.9 billion? (You might want to do a bit of research into the nature of van Dijk’s 2018/2019 earnings).
Requirements: 400 WORDS
Assessment 2:
Bob van Dijk and his billions
Time for you to think a little again. In the crossroads assessment, one of the multiple choice questions was the following:
“ In the 2018/2019 financial year, Bob van Dijk, the CEO of Naspers (NOT THE SOCCER PLAYER) earned a total remuneration (salary, incentives and options) of R 1.9 billion.” My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by:
A. Good for him – he worked hard to earn this
B. The only problem I have with this is that this money is in van Dijk’s bank account and not in mine
C. No problem with this. I’m sure van Dijk donates huge amounts to charities
D. I think that it is morally wrong for anyone to earn that much money
E. I think that active steps should be taken to correct such immoral executive remuneration practices
Do you remember which option you chose? (If you haven’t done the crossroads assessment you need to go and do it now.)
Anyway, in this assignment we are going to zoom in on option A specifically: “ Good for him – he worked hard to earn this”. What this option is basically saying is, that you think that van Dijk’s earnings are completely reasonable and justifiable?
What we want you to do in this assessment is to examine this act (i.e. someone, perhaps even you, taking ZAR 1.9 billion for a year’s work) from the perspective of Kant’s formula of universal law version of the categorical imperative.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 0: Do Assessment 1
If you haven’t already done it, please go to the “AT A CROSSROAD” section and do Assessment 1 now.
YOU MAY GET 0 (ZERO) FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT IF YOU HAVE NOT SUBMITTED YOUR ASSESSMENT 1.
Step 1: Evaluate the act using Kant’s categorical imperative (We’ve done the first two stages for you)
1. State your proposed act as a maxim:
“van Dijk will take ZAR 1.9 billion (A) when he’s done a year’s work (C) in order to get really, really rich (E).”
2. Restate this maxim as a universal law;
“All people (7.6 billion of them) will take ZAR 1.9 billion when they’ve done a year’s work in order to get really, really rich.”
3. Ask whether your maxim is conceivable in a world ruled by the universal law; and finally
You need to fill in this stuff……
4. Ask whether you would rationally act on your maxim in such a world.
And this stuff…..
Step 2: Form an opinion
On the basis of your analysis above, answer the following questions:
What would Kant probably have said about van Dijk earning ZAR 1.9 billion? (You might want to do a bit of research into the nature of van Dijk’s 2018/2019 earnings).
Why do you think this? You MUST state your premises explicitly as we taught you in the section on arguments () If you do not do this you will not pass this assignment.
What do you think about van Dijk earning ZAR 1.9 billion?
Why do you think this? You MUST state your premises explicitly as we taught you in the section on arguments ()
Step 3: Write your answers to steps 1 and 2 in a Word document
Although it is technically possible to write your answer directly into the discussion forum below, we would strongly advise against this. Rather write it in a Word document that you can save somewhere just in case something goes wrong with the submission process.
Your answer should be an absolute minimum of 400 words.
Step 4: Submit your answers from steps 1 and 2 for marking
You do this in the discussion below.
DO NOT COPY FROM ANYWHERE – PLAGIARIZED WORK WILL GET 2%
DO NOT SUBMIT LATE – LATE ASSESSMENTS WILL NOT BE MARKED
Step 5: Have a look at what everyone else has written and discuss
Once you have submitted your assessment, you will be able to see the submissions of all your fellow students. We strongly encourage you to look at whatever your fellow students have written on this issue. And better still, to comment on what they have written!
This is a controversial issue after all. Some will think there is no problem with this sort of remuneration; some will think that there is a big problem with it.
So let’s get some discussion going!
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