Democracy and Inequality

CAT 2018 Slot 1 · VARC · Medium · Verbal Ability

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The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3, 4) given in this question, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the proper sequence of order of the sentences and key in this sequence of four numbers as your answer:

  1. But now we have another group: the unwitting enablers.
  2. Democracy and high levels of inequality of the kind that have come to characterize the United States are simply incompatible.
  3. Believing these people are working for a better world, they are, actually, at most, chipping away at the margins, making slight course corrections, ensuring the system goes on as it is, uninterrupted.
  4. Very rich people will always use money to maintain their political and economic power.
Answer

2413

Explanation

2 opens with the broad thesis about democracy and inequality. 4 explains the first group ('very rich people'). 1 introduces 'another group: the unwitting enablers'. 3 elaborates on what 'these people' (unwitting enablers) do.

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