s competing for business must always try to undercut the opponent’s prices and costs, with this more choices will be created. Another example of Perryman’s use of the common sense rhetorical strategy is when he states, “The information and technology revolution of today, which I believe to be in its infancy, is creating a wider gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ and is likely to eliminate or greatly reduce the need for many relatively unskilled occupation (and more than a few skilled ones) over the next few years” (2). He goes on to say, “We must have a viable mechanism to deal with this pressing social concern – ideally one that proactively improves overall production” (2). Perryman does a good job of making himself quite credible, using the common sense strategy in this statement I feel because he shows that he has looked ahead to where our economy is headed and has recognized one of the problems that competition creates. Perryman is saying that competition doesn’t make itself worried about what happens to the losers; and whatever happens to them in life, so be it. I feel that this is not a good thing in and of itself. With a huge gap of people whom are unable to receive jobs because of computers being able to do the tasks better, the economy will actually fall regardless of how much production is being done because of the poverty of a great percentage of the population.Using the rhetorical appeal of logos and the strategy of relevance the ideas and strategies are often quite obvious to the reader. I think Perryman does this to show how obvious it is that competition is not all good and in some ways can hurt the economy. Perryman starts out with the relevance strategy by saying, “…competition can lead to monopoly. In fact, the very word ‘competition’ suggests there will be winners and losers, with someone ultimately emerging as...
