SUS1501 Assignment 2 (DETAILED ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

SUS1501 Assignment 2 (DETAILED ANSWERS) Semester 2 2025 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references.... In assignment 1, one of the questions was: "In 2024, Elon Musk's net worth increased by about ZAR 12 billion every day!" My personal opinion on this statement is most closely described by: a. Good for him – he is brilliant and worked hard to earn this. b. The only problem I have with this is that it wasn’t me getting ZAR 12 billion richer every day! c. No problem with this. I'm sure all of these billionaires donate 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 earnings Do you remember which option you chose? 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 the earnings of billionaires like Musk are completely reasonable and justifiable? What we want you to do in this assignment is to examine this option (i.e. someone, perhaps even you, earning R 12 billion a day for a year) from the perspective of Kant’s formula of universal law version of the categorical imperative. 2. EVALUATE USING KANT'S CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE (We've done the first two stages for you) 1. State your proposed act as a maxim: "Elon Musk will take R 12 billion (A) every day for a year (C) in order to get really, really rich (E)." 2. Restate this maxim as a universal law: "All people (8.1 billion of them) will take R 12 billion every day for a year in order to get really, really rich." 3. Is the maxim above conceivable in a world ruled by the universal law;