Driving around the parks that encircle Washington, he solicited customers with a simple pitch: early in the morning, he would deliver some bagels and a cash basket to company’s snack room; he would return before lunch to pick up the money and the leftovers. It was an honor-system commerce scheme, and it worked. Within a few years, Feldman was delivering 8,400 bagels a week to 140 companies and earning as much as he had ever made as a research analyst. He had thrown off the shackles of cubicle life and made himself happy.

The author proves Feldman's success by describing the size of his business. Feldman got his own conclusions based on his experience. He has worked in small and big companies in order to reach these conclusions. He also concluded that morale is a big factor, if employees and bosses have a good relationship, the environment will be more honest.

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Lanuel Lanuel · Answer 2 · 2022-04-20T19:10:15+02:00

Based on the excerpt, the statement which best strengthens Feldman's claim that people are mostly honest is that his payment system was largely successful.

What is an inference?

An inference can be defined as an act through which a reader can deduce the meaning of a word or get an information (message) from a literary work, especially through induction.

In this scenario, we can deduce and infer that Feldman's claim that people are mostly honest is strongly supported by the fact that his commerce scheme or payment system was largely successful.

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