Passage Summary: Companies are putting up posters to get people excited about work, but the author thinks this is pointless because most workers are already excited.

Conclusion: The use of motivational posters by corporations is unlikely to succeed in increasing productivity.

Reasoning: The posters are intended to boost motivation, but since most employees are already motivated, the posters will not have the intended effect.

Analysis: The argument suffers from a common logical gap: it assumes that if a condition (motivation) already exists, it cannot be improved or that the effort won't help the minority who lack it. Just because I'm already 'motivated' doesn't mean I couldn't be *more* motivated, nor does it mean the posters won't work on the few unmotivated employees. The author treats motivation like a binary light switch—either it's on or it's off—rather than a spectrum. Look for an answer that identifies this failure to consider degrees of motivation or the impact on the unmotivated subgroup.