Comparative Passages (Beginner) with Rob

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All right, let's start it. My name is Robin, I'm instructor at LSATN-X, and today we have a live class.

Those of you who joined in to the one on when was it Saturday, I think. Where you joined and then eventually you realized that there was no live class.

My apologies for that one. I joined that one as well and was unable to host. Due to a technical issue, some of our team that normally resolves those issues was still without Wi-Fi in the aftermath of hurricanes.

So it doesn't happen often, so I apologize for that. That's a tech issue. Just like a general natural disaster issue.

And probably not gonna happen again. All right, so we're gonna get into this one today. We have comparative passages or beginners, you know, as usual.

So, you know, it's kind of like a new schedule coming up with a few new people in this. These live classes, you know, different instructors tend to run them in different ways.

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think I'm talking to adults. Anyway, we have comparative passages today, questions, comments. I'd love to hear them. love to talk about anything, you know, pretty much else that related, honestly.

let's do it. How many of you guys are taking the test in November? It's a good thing to know.

I'll give you, wow, give you a November advice instead of like April. He's got so many. Okay, so no one.

All right, now you see this is for argument-based questions because probably know that But I'll leave it there in case you're like, oh wow, I wish I remember your last lecture.

had that That was not okay January. right, great. Thank you for answering Okay, I'll give you January advice and April advice too, but there will be no November advice because you guys didn't ask for it Comparative passages So Here's I don't even know if gonna write something down on this, but here's a few thoughts on comparative passages One they're not harder than solitary passages so just to Just to Give her to that right now If you guys have noticed Like logical reasoning reading comprehension the difficulty ratchets up over the course of the section So Passages three and four are Almost always harder than path

just one and two. I mean, I think it's like, that's, it's kind of a done deal that's supposed to happen.

So, and my understanding is that passage one is, you know, the easiest passage two is the second easiest, although sometimes passage two might be, you know, might give one of the other passages are run for their money and run for its money.

And then passages three and four, it's like the same amount of difficulty, so it doesn't really matter, you know, what order you're doing those in.

That's just, those are pretty standard, like they're the difficult passages. So, somebody advice on that is if you are like, oh, I hate doing science passages, but passage one is science, you have to do that.

You just, you have to, because that's objectively the easiest one, and it's also probably subjectively to, like, you know, don't, don't cough up those.

It's like not doing a per- Well, reason question in the first like five in LR, like that's an easy one.

You have to do that one. So, um, comparative passage is the reason why I talk about passive difficulty is that comparative passages are most often used by the test, you know, by the testers in.

So, you know, we see this, right? You know, I mean, wow, that's a terrible diagram. It should be like That is probably accurate, right?

Okay, in terms of there's your difficulty rating on the side. So, comparative passages are like 50% of the time concentrated here, which means that 50% of the time see a comparative passage, it is designed to be the hardest one.

to be like one of the two hardest in in this section and then 25% of the time you have here and then 25% of the time well and then I think this is not totally true but then the other 25 is split here.

So what does that tell you? Well it tells you that 75% of the time the comparative passage is specifically designed to be as hard as the hardest solitary passages and then 24% of the time 25% of the time that's like not true.

So if you look at comparing you're like these are just harder than other ones. It's like not inherently not inherently like only like when you see a comparative passage in passages three or four that is going to be as hard as a solitary passage that would be in passage three and four.

Similarly if you see a comparative passage in passage one that is not going to be hard. That would be the easiest one of the set.

No question. It might give you a little bit of grief and don't feel bad if you missed some easy questions here and there.

happens to all of us. if you see it in the first slot, it's the easiest one. So that just goes to demystifying the idea that they're harder than regular passages for some reason.

I don't believe that at all. Either do the test makers, although they would lie to you all the time.

So the next thing about comparative passages that's really important is that my belief on this is that you should do them exactly the same need to do solitary passages.

You're like, well, does it, what does that mean? Like there's two of them. So how do you read solitary passages?

I think that there's a couple of things that you're going to do with any given passage and then with comparative passage, you're going to do it twice.

All right, so after, let's do a Google after, okay. After every paragraph, you ask one, what happened here? And two, what's the other question?

How does this connect to other paragraphs? And then when you get to the end. You know, do you guys remember how to ask yourself what the main point was?

There's a really easy try to do it. What was the subject of the passage and what was the author's opinion on it?

That will give you the main point much easier than trying to dive it. and I had first on a diving board that's attached to like a four-foot pool.

Okay, and then what's next, right? So you do this is basically passage one. Surprise, and then passage two, this isn't going to blow any minds, but this entire thing goes over here.

Okay, and now what? Now we get into our last step at the end of both passages. You know, what would I ask for?

This is like, I just lay up like a really easy sentence to synthesize these. It's kind of lazy, honestly, but that's, I mean, I don't know, better way to do this.

for ways that are a little bit more targeted, they tend to get people digging into the minutia to an inappropriate degree, think.

So I would just do this. The end of the passage is, you know, you do a passage one does this.

And then depending on, you know, the passages are framed, whether they're like in contrast, or whether they're like, you know, supporting things from like two different angles.

And passage two does this. And then that should give you an idea of how to wrap them together. But the key parts with comparative passages that I want you to remember is like, one, don't just look at this and be like, oh, there's too many passages here, or there's too many paragraphs here, so I'm not going to do what I normally do for where to come.

Like, oh, the paragraphs are so short, just not going to do that. And then you have to do the same technique.

You can't just treat this like LR. it's reading calm. like treat it like reading comp, uh, second thing that I'm going say is that you always have to keep in mind the main points of each passage at all times.

Like, there is under no circumstances you'd be reading passage two and somebody should hypothetically ask you what's the main point of passage one and then you should be like, uh, I don't know.

And then go back up to passage one. No. Like, that is something you have to keep in your head 100% of the time.

It's kind of like, it's sort of remembering your name. Uh, you know, you might not be doing something where you need to tell people who you are.

But if they stop and ask you, you should be able to do it. Like if people stop and ask you in the middle passage to what your name is, like you're going to be able to do that.

Similarly, if they stop and ask you in the middle passage to what the main point of passage one was, you should be able to do that.

You happen. If you're, if you can't do that, that is the sign that you are not actually doing these things Like that's what that tells me If you do these things you will be able to do that the other thing last thing I'm gonna say before we dive in on these is that You really have to know both the passages well You know I mean like that that might sound like you're like, okay, Rob I I can't believe I I woke up in the morning or tuned in at lunch time for that piece of information But I see all the time a test taker will like Think that they know one of the passages really well But then not know the other one and they'll be like, you know what like that's pretty good I'm probably gonna do really well, right like if you're like I'm 50% on passage one, I'm a hundred percent of passage two I'm gonna like aggregate that that's 75% like I should get 75% of the questions, right?

That's wrong That's not gonna work, you need to know them both really well, otherwise you're like really not going to understand the ways in which they relate and the extent to which one is a foil for the other.

Like you just you won't get it. So don't be lazy and it'll be like, okay, I really get passage one, all right, passage two, I don't know, I'm just gonna do it.

Gotta just put your effort in all the way. It's like with with it, you know, if you had a regular passage like this or just a solitary passage, you would never do this.

Like no one reads a solitary passage. Well, you guys do, but you shouldn't. No one does this where you think like, okay, I'm in the first paragraph really well.

The last two paragraphs were like, ah, I have no idea. But you know what, I'll probably get the questions right.

No, no, you're not going to get any of the right if you only understand one paragraph out of the three or four that were presented.

Same thing works with compare it. So let me open one of these things. We're gonna do it. You know, some other tips.

or maybe slightly relevant here, or like, you know, if you see something that's referenced, or referenced again, or repeated it in the second passage that you saw in the first passage, do like a little bit of a, oh, you can't see that.

If you do it, well, I can't do it from here, it doesn't really make sense. Do like a little bit of a mental note for that, and think like, oh, wow, that thing that I read about, here it is again.

As you know, there's usually a question that's like, what did both passage talk about? What questions were both passages trying to answer?

And sometimes that results in like a big picture, like, how do I understand what the main point is? Sometimes it is purely like a little detail that's in there.

Are we ready? You better be ready. No crew has ever been this ready. All right, so our passage is here, so if you see a comparative passage, as I said earlier, any time in before passage three or before passage four, it's not going to be that right.

Let's do it. Okay, passage A, you know, this is, by the way, like that stuff up front where it will tell you a little bit about the passages, that's sometimes helpful.

Like here, it might be helpful to know that passage B was published after passage A. It might be helpful.

Sometimes they will tell you that one of the passages is published in response to the other passage. That's probably like when it's most helpful.

Sometimes they'll tell you the source of the publication, which can give you a little bit of insight into the purpose of the writing, and then sometimes like it's just kind of meaningless, but I just read it, just takes a sec.

It's a day. of people worldwide play multiplayer online games. They each pick, say, medieval character to play such as a warrior, and then they might band together and quest to slay magical beasts.

Their avatars appear as tiny characters striding across a tokenist land. Uh, what do we have here? We're introducing the concept of what a multiplayer online game is.

I mean, that, you know, why do we need to dig into that more, right? Like, you get your own character and then you're with other characters, fighting other people.

The economist, Edward, Caster Nova, noticed something curious about the game he played. It had its own economy, a bustling trade in virtual goods.

Players generate goods as they play, often by killing creatures. for their treasure and trading it. The longer they play, the wealthier they get.

Well, what do I see here? Okay, so basically the first paragraph introduces like what this, you know, what the context is like, hey, there's this thing called the multiplayer game.

Second paragraph introduces an economist that says, you know, it's super weird that there's like a virtual marketing there. Like we're trading real goods, like, you know, fake computer game.

Kind of interesting. You know, you play more, you get wealthier, and then you get your money, can trade for other stuff.

Okay, what about it? know, the next paragraphs will probably give us some insight into why that would even matter and why the author cares about that.

Oh, maybe that isn't the author's plan. I've never played it. So like, that just went right over my head.

just thought that they were all like that. Like, they were all magical beats. Like, I know you guys are like, okay, this guy's not cool.

Yeah. next paragraph here. Things got even more interesting when cast or no, but how mean that even more interesting love that when castor nova learned about the player auctions Players would sometimes tire over the game and decide to sell off their virtual possessions at online auction sites Okay player auctions your you know see you're done with the game and you're just gonna sell all your stuff Which is really weird Which is I mean because you like normally you think like I'm just gonna quit like nobody playing like I don't know Like it is like Madden's still a thing or something like no, it's like I'm done playing Madden 2024 I'll see if somebody on I'm like wants my player shoulder pads or something like it.

No one's doing that These games are interesting with the player auctions as castor nova stared at the auction listings He recognized with the shock what he was looking at it was a form of currency trading Each item had a value in the virtual

currency traded in the game. it was sold on the auction site, someone was paying cold hard cash for it.

So you're paying real money. You sell off your possessions for real dollars and then you cash out of the game.

That meant that their virtual currency was worse something in real currency. Moreover, since players were killing monsters or skinning animals to sell their pelts, they were in effect creating wealth.

Cool, right? So we have a little passage here. What's this? What did we see? We saw the introduction of the context, which is a multiplayer game where people were engaged in some fantasy land or army building.

And an economist noticed that they have real market in there, but the thing that's really weird about the market is that when people sell their stuff to get out of the game, they sell it for real money.

that tells you that it's Like the stuff that's in the game has like real value in US dollar, not just like virtual currency.

pretty cool. Yeah, what's the main point here? What's the other, what's the subject of the passage? Subject to the passage I think is currency trading in in multiplayer games.

And what's author's opinion? Currency trading in multiplayer games is really interesting because the currency training actually has like a real world dollar effect to it.

Like that's it, know what I mean? Like that, I forget too hard, you know, too crazy with those. So let's keep that in mind.

Passage B, most multiplayer online games prohibit real world trade and virtual items. Okay, so that's 2007, three years later, people are like, I don't know about that.

But some actually encourage you, for example, by granting participants intellectual property rights in their creations. Although it seems intuitively the case that someone who accepts real money for the transfer of a virtual item should be taxed, what about the player who accumulates items or virtual currency within a virtual world?

I'm going to be honest, I'm going to answer that question and say, don't tax virtual currency. You tax actual currency.

I don't know, though, now I sound like a crypto enthusiast, so maybe I'll go back on that position here.

Just read that out here. Is loot acquired in a game taxable? I get crypto, because you get to buy it with actual money, so that's different.

That's just a medium of exchange. You're not like, no one... You know, I don't know much about the crypto world, but I don't think people are like skin and animals Like they can trade pelts for coin you know what You know what?

I don't know don't want to get into it is loot acquired in the game taxable a prize or award is taxable as a prize or as an award that's what that's supposed to say so that's a little typo and it is the profit and a purely in-game trader sale for virtual currency taxable these are important questions given the tax revenues at stake and their pressure on governments to answer them given that the economies of some virtual worlds are comparable to those of small countries I know what I think about that what do we have in the first couple paragraphs here so the authors like this one's really taking a tax issue it's like how do we know you know virtual currency

Do we tax it? Do we not tax it? Do we understand it as loot acquired in a virtual world?

Do we understand it as something that has an effect on the dollar? Do you tax it only when people cash out?

Do you tax it when they acquire it? they pay cash for it, mean, you would be taxing the cash already, so that would be like double taxed, I think.

Yeah, interesting. Most people's intuition. Okay, so now we're going to start talking about like, how do we really do this?

Most people's intuition probably would be that accumulation of assets within a game should not be taxed, even though income tax applies even to non-cash ascensions to wealth.

This article will argue that income, law, and policy support that result. acquisitions and game worlds should not be treated as taxable prizes and awards, but rather should be treated like other properties that require effort to obtain, such as fish pulled from the ocean, which is taxed only upon sale.

Moreover, in-game trades and virtual items should not be treated as taxable barter. Okay, so this paragraph We get a little bit of a say like here's here's how most people it's all this they wouldn't They wouldn't taxes until you exchange it for real money even though like land You know some non-cast at Asha assets Are actually taxed but that people don't think that it should be here and then the author saying yeah, I support that in the rest of this article I'll tell you all about this but The best way to think about that is like a fish from the ocean the fish is not taxed until it is traded from money So it's kind of interesting By contrast look at tax doctrine and policy counsel taxation of sale of virtual items for real currency

I'm, I, I got to understand this by contract. What is this contrasting? By contrast tax doctrine and policy, council taxation of sale of virtual items for real currency and in games they're intentionally commodified even of in-world sales for virtual currency regardless of whether the participant cash is out.

This approach would leave entertainment value untaxed without creating a tax shelter for virtual cards. This makes sense you guys.

paragraph. the author in the previous paragraph argues that loot should be taxed only upon sale, but notes in the last paragraph that the existing doctrine would tax virtual currency.

Like, even if you don't cash out because theoretically some playing the game would just like hoard a bunch of virtual currency and then never pay taxes on it until the moment that you cash out at the right time and then, you know, so in essence, that game has basically been a tax shelter for you.

this entire time. Like, there are reasons if people would do that. if you retired or something, or you didn't want to get hit with a particularly nasty income taxes at a particularly nasty time, then you're going to use a tax shelter, or you're going to try to use a tax shelter.

And tax doctrine was things that this could be one of those situations. Cool. What did we have in the second passage?

Passage. Like, what's the main point here? What's the subject? Subject is easy. Taxing virtual currency, taxing virtual assets, that's what it is.

What's the author's opinion? Well, author's opinion is that you shouldn't do it until it's traded for real assets, although existing tax law kind of supports the opposite.

What's passage A about, by the way? Can somebody tell me my point passaget is in the chat? Nobody remembers.

Oh, guys, come on. All right. Passaget was about what? Passaget was about the existence of this phenomenon and how interesting it was.

Passaget was that, you know, in-game virtual trading for multiplayer games is interesting because it shows that players are creating real assets in a virtual world.

That's it. It's not a whole lot, you know. I mean, the passage A is like, you know, notice the tone of these are really different passage A.

Anybody could read that? You're like, Oh, my gosh, interesting. Whoa, crazy. it was currency trading. Passage B is where the article is saying, in the rest of my article, I will prove like this is from an abstract of like a deeply technical tax policy article.

Passage A could be like in a magazine. Passage A, I mean, honestly, the writing in passage A is still the quality.

couldn't even be in like a serious magazine. So, know, take that for you. So, how do these passages relate to each other?

How do they not relate? know, okay, so great ideas in passage one is just like thinking that the online economy is interesting.

Passage two is where people of trying to figure out how to manipulate that online economy. Like, how do you tax it?

Pass a day saying, oh, look at this fun thing. Pass a beat. OK, now what do we do about it?

I think that that's a pretty good synthesis of it. So I go into questions at this point. Hold on a second, I'm going to log entering these questions, which can be annoying.

All right. Which one of the following pairs of titles would be most appropriate for passage A and passage B, respectively?

So passage A, you're looking for something that demonstrates the curiosity of the author. wow, look at something interesting. Passage B is very clearly the author about to defend a thesis.

So you want something a little bit more focused and academic to it. With that in mind, what do you guys like?

So I don't like a multiple reasons. I don't like a because we're not learning economic theories. We're learning about things that an economist observed completely different.

I wouldn't even read the second part of that. But if I did, I would notice that intellectual property rights are not the issue taxation is the issue.

So it is in outer space. Be an economist discovers new economic territory. What do you think? I think that that sounds exactly what I read in a.

So let's check the B title taxing virtual property. Does anybody think that that one meshes with what we read?

You guys feel like 10 seconds to type in like a little yay or nay or put thumbs up like does it work?

And if you were reading CD and E. Please. Oh, like you know that you're you're corrupting the process. Yes.

Okay, great Like you don't need to be like oh, I like that, but let me let me screw around and do this other stuff Like I double knotted my shoes But I'm gonna do a triple knot today.

It's like don't do a triple knots Don't do that People not like people who tie triple knots like I mean, uh You know you just like don't trust your process you'll never be able to tie a double knot that works Which one of the following most accurate expresses how the use of the phrase skinning animals and passage a relates to the use of the It's fish pulled from the ocean and passage B.

Um, don't look at the lines How did I just move the line so you couldn't even see them? Well, it's impossible with the way that this is but um In skinning animals like the you want

a big picture about sure. So what was the whole point of passage is that people were creating actual wealth with virtual activities.

So like, skinning animals on a game somehow gave you like real money, really interesting. In the same way that like fish pulled from the ocean in real life is a task of something that like doesn't inherently have a money value, but then you know because we have markets that buy fish like you are creating value doing that.

So either way like you're harvesting things like these are these are activities that are generating wealth. A former refers to an activity that generates wealth agreed or is the latter refers to an activity that does not generate wealth.

Well if you think that fishing doesn't generate wealth, um you're running. All right, should, doesn't always. is, but a fish is worth money.

The former refers to an activity in an online game, the latter refers to an analogous activity in the real world.

Is that, does that sound good? To you guys, I would pick that and move on. Like, I would not, I would under no circumstances if I look at CD&E here.

Like, this is one of those where you're like, I mean, this could not be more obvious. So, if you look at this and you're like, I don't know, you know, I was kind of skeptical in this.

Something that is going to help you make this decision fast, though, where you're going to, like, be sitting in my shoes and be like, it's be all the way, like, it's mess enough, is taking the attitude that you're going to look at answer choices one of the time and evaluate them on their merits without reference to other answer choices.

So, the reason that people look at being, they're like, oh, I didn't quite have your confidence is because, like, you...

You don't even have the attitude or disposition that you have to make a decision on B, and because you don't have to make a decision on B, you don't.

So you read something that is absolutely the answer you want, but you're not priming yourself to grab a correct answer as soon as you see it.

That's why people hesitate on B, even though there is no universe in which you should be hesitating on B, like it's just a matter of approaching the test and giving yourself some practice with evaluating answer choices on their own to say like, do I like A or not?

Do I like B or not? Not like, well, but I'm going to look at something else and I'm going look at that third thing.

That's the way that you want to do this. How can you make sure it's not a trap answer? What do you think?

Like, there's only one answer choice that properly answers the question. So if you find it, that's correct. Like a trap answer choice is not one that properly answers the question.

A trap answer choice is one that, like, you picked because you don't have a good grasp on what it takes to answer the question.

So like, I don't, yeah, I don't believe in that. I mean, I'm not going to lie, like, obviously there are ones where I'm like, you know, read an answer choice.

I'm like, I know he's going to pick this one, you know, but yeah, like, don't compare answer choices to each other.

The only time that you want to do that is if you read two answer choices that, like, sound pretty much the same.

and then you're like okay I need to figure out how they sound different in order so that I can you know like know what to look in the passage for but otherwise like you don't you don't compare B to to C like it's like these are the right one let's go for it I you know in the like the test doesn't trap you guys like it knows that you guys are going to trap yourself and it uh it allows that to happen with regard to their respective attitudes toward commerce and virtual items passage A differs from passage B and it passages so remember at the end of these where I was like hey um pay attention to the tone here passage A is really excited about discovering something whereas passage is like very academic and you know wants to have a serious discussion about tax policy and what is probably like a very long article.

So pick something that vibes with that. So A differs from passage B and the passage A is more. Well, passage A is the fun one.

So let's pick the fun thing. So A critical and apprehensive. That's not fun. Academic and dismissive. It's not academic.

is academic. I don't even know if B is dismissive though. Maybe a little bit. Intrigued and excited. All right, what you think?

Does that sound like A? I mean, I do think it does sound like A. This is the kind of question we're like, to be honest, if you look at seeing you're like excited about what?

Like excited about- of discovery because excited about a discovery is the same thing of being intrigued by discovery. So, like, if this seems to me either redundant or something, I might be missing something here.

But I intrigued is huge. Like, wow, I found something interesting intrigued and excited. I mean, yeah, I'd go with that.

You know, if you look at the other ones where, you know, this is the type of question where the text is so low and like a tone word so easy to analyze that, like, you could forgive yourself for doing this.

Undecided, but curious, I don't know what undecided is. Like, the reason that you pick D is that you think that the author and passage A is aware of the problem in passage B, but just like, doesn't rule on it.

then you're like, oh, he's undecided. It's like, no, there's, there isn't even a policy position. in A, that the author expresses an opinion or lack of opinion on.

So like, it's not on the side. What do you think about E? I don't see skepticism anywhere. If you read the end of the passage, sometimes I think like, what would I have to see in the passage for this answer choice to be correct?

For E to be correct, like, I definitely see enthusiasm, but I don't see skepticism. Like, skepticism I'd have to see, like, the author saying they were killing monsters or skinning pelts to create wealth, which is really stupid.

Then I'd be like, okay, the author's skeptical. But also, how are you enthusiastic at that point? So it's hard even mix those.

Usually enthusiastic and skeptical is the way that you're going to describe, like, a potential development in policy or the way that you might, like, you know...

Um, you know, if you're, you know, a particular president campaign, you might be like, I'm really excited, but like, I don't know if, I don't know, I'm kind of worried, of worried if you just same business as usual, but it could be fun.

Then you pick that in this case, you won't. Based on what can be referred from their titles, the relationship between which one of the following pairs of documents is most analogous to the relationship between passage A and passage B.

Again, passage A is the curious, fine one, that uh, finds something and goes like, oh my gosh, look at this, passage B is the one that says, okay, here's what we do about this.

So look for something that explores that relationship. Is it A? No. it B? No, no, you know, mean, like you're like, what is the second part of it?

like what the first part of that P is is a, you know, not even close. What about C? Something is discovered.

And then now people figure out have more academic debates about what to do. About it. Do you guys like see?

Anybody like see? I love it. love it. You know, I mean, so notice how so many of these questions come down to very early on in analysis of the passage being able to understand the ways in which these passages are distinct.

To understand the difference in both the tone and the subject. And the way that you're going to do that really, really well is you're going to understand what the main point is.

If you have the main point, what the main point is going to do is it communicates both the position and the author's endorsement, like the extent of the author's endorsement of that position.

So like, it's really, really helpful to you. That's why I would have it in your back pocket and your front pocket and hang it from your back, you know, as well.

Okay. What do we not like about C, because I like it, because you guys don't, I'm not saying it's the answer.

I'm just not saying that. I may have actually said that earlier, but if I did, didn't mean to. Come on.

You guys are on to something. Those who don't like C, I mean. You're on to something just says tell me what it is Okay, here is the issue with see Here's what I would want like let's try this technique That I just came up with or I didn't just come up with it But we just talked about in the last question where you ask yourself What would I have to see in the passage for this answer choice to be correct?

The first part of see I really like like a new plan I discovered like I said that love it And then I also like how the second part of see Gets into the academic discussion Bullock is there something about that discussion that doesn't really check out?

Yeah Come on chat you guys killing it You I think you might be technically there, but not, I mean, it's not about like what it brings up but yeah, see the problem is that the like when you look at passage B, passage B is deciding what to do about something.

Whereas a discussion about whether something is a planet or an asteroid is not a discussion about what to do about what that object is.

Like that's a that's a question of taxonomy. So like if the passage were to look more like if the choice C was correct, probably passage A would be the same.

And then passage B E would say virtual currency. Is it wealth or is it not wealth? You know what I mean?

Then I'd be like, oh, OK. Now I understand it. Because you know, like, passage A proposes that it's wealth and is really interesting about that discovery.

then passage B is like, are we sure it actually is? So I see it doesn't quite add up. So what about D?

OK, but I'll just create new species in that. OK, I, you know, this to me isn't as exciting as, like, discovering something.

But it is true that something new is created that we are recognizing. And then what? Artificially created like how patent law applies.

OK, now this gets into passage B's whole. OK, so what should we do about that thing? I do. So passage or Santa Trustee is going to look really good.

Did I eliminate it? Yeah. Okay, eleven. Yeah, D looked really good. You know, C looked pretty good. It just said, you know, was kind of wrong on how it characterized passage B.

I'm going to, okay, so passage A, I think we decided was like a magazine that anybody could read. That just throws some interesting ideas out there.

Passage B is a tax policy journal. Okay, answer to say, magazine article addressed to a general audience. Yes, that's totally, that's totally one.

Be a law journal article. Yes. If you're like, I want to say tax policy, policy is law. Kind of.

Yeah. I mean, you could, you could run, you'd be like, I don't know if I like law. What if I could see, I mean, you know, a, I mean, there's no other, like, I don't know where else taxation involves business journal, but you're not going to see that here.

So you're going to pick a and then move on. What do we got here? Which one most accurately describes the relationship between the passages?

at us, we're doing this one again, basically. Passage A is the excitement of a discovery. Passage B is like the down-endurity about what to do about that discovery.

Let's look for that. Passage A is unanticipated discovery. Oh my god. This is the stuff that like makes me recoil, reading a phrase like unanticipated discovery.

It's not quite redundant, but it's pretty close. Pretty close. It's like saying unanticipated epiphany. know, I mean, it's almost, that's almost just a misuse of language.

But I think it is a discovery of do like that. It wasn't anticipated. Okay, fine. Because like, you know, the discoveries are...

usually not anticipated. Passage be proposed with solutions to a problem raised by the phenomenon. have a problem with how to tax it.

Do you guys like A? I picked A. I picked A. Okay. You guys what? Am I messing with you?

So someone in the chat thinks I'm messing with you. What makes it unanticipated? That's not something that you have to prove in a discovery.

Like the nature of a discovery is that you find something that you weren't aware of like it's very it's it is more often i mean if you were like how what's an anticipated discovery i you know an anticipated discovery is like okay you know i'm in the i'm in the attic i'm reading you know uh my ancient ancestors diary and i knew that this ancestor did some crazy stuff like i think i'm going to discover that he actually did the murder that he was on trial for you know i mean like that's an anticipated discovery but most discoveries are not like that uh but like you know i think you're right to point us to see which is why we'll talk about this so antitrust see a report on a subculture which i think is totally true like millions of people doing something that the rest of the population doesn't do uh that's that's a sub

Culture unquestionably passage B assesses discusses the difficulty of policing it. So this passage be say it's difficult or this passage be just propose solution Which one like that's what you got to decide Here's the other thing I mean just for like a little cheater on this a doesn't Well, we'll talk with that.

I mean what do you guys think see your Sierra? I'm just gonna pick whatever you guys say You We'll pick where, okay, so a couple of people on C.

The difficulty of policing it. Yeah, I'm going to get this one open for just a little bit longer because I think somebody might have an idea.

So for those of you who think it's C, explain why you think it's C in that way. You the OK so some of them OK OK so now we're we're tracking C because policing is not like to what extent is taxing policing taxing is you know I'm kind of like I don't know I don't know this this this is like the top question here for this one I mean this one's hard there's no doubt yeah I think

Okay, so A could work, okay, so now we're going back to A. We've all gone back to A. Yeah, I think it's A.

I don't think that policing and subculture is the same as like taxing. The money that comes out from it for the same reason that you guys are expressing the chat.

So. But what was the, know, I didn't want to. One thing that. Yeah, like you, when you look at this one and you think like, okay, I'm looking at answer to say, I'm trying to analyze the passage because.

Does it raise a problem? What is the problem? Well, problem is how to tax it. Do we propose solutions for how to tax it?

Yeah. Okay, so like I like that. What is difficulty with C, you know, yeah, policing the subculture is, it's just not really specific enough to, you know, the idea of like when to tax the subculture, yeah, yeah, yeah, taxi is, taxi is not policing, because like you'll go to law school and you're going to read like that line, the power to taxes, power to destroy, and then you'll think about this.

So this one's at, based on passage B, which one of the is a characteristic of some games that are intentionally commodified, based on passage B, which that are intentionally commodified.

Okay. Cheers. These are going to be games where you harvest resources in the game and contribute them for other resources in the game.

That's what commodification is. So we looked at something that looks like that. Do we find it? What are you guessing?

So it's not Any ideas? What you guys think? I just thought it wasn't A. Okay, somebody's liking D. D is correct.

Why? Yeah, I mean, it's like the first line of passage B, like you encourage trade by granting intellectual property rights.

So, you are creating something in the game that cannot be duplicated and then can somehow attain some value inside and outside of the game.

So, yeah, it's deep. Yeah, he was tempting and it's wrong for the exact reason that you say it's wrong.

All right, that's it. That's our show today. And we'll be back some of the time. But thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for participating on this. This one, I will say questions 12 and 13 are not easy. They're not. Some of these other ones, though, I don't think.

Yeah, you know, 10 was maybe a little bit tricky, but other than that, we properly blaze through this. All right, I'll see you guys later.

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