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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 102
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
We have to recognize the unevenness in human mental equipments. If every job in our place required skill the place would never have existed. Sufficiently skilled men to the number needed could not have been trained in a hundred years. A million men working by hand could not even approximate our present daily output. No one could manage a million men. But more important than that, the product of the unaided hands of those million men could not be sold at a price in consonance with buying power. And even if it were possible to imagine such an aggregation and imagine its management and correlation, just think of the area that it would have to occupy! How many of the men would be engaged, not in producing, but in merely carrying from place to place what the other men had produced? I cannot see how under such conditions the men could possibly be paid more than ten or twenty cents a day--for of course it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays the wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages.
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定位：Additional excerpt 102 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特说，得承认人的脑力参差不齐。如果厂里每个岗位都要技能，工厂根本建不起来，因为一百年也培训不出足够多的熟练工。一百万人手工干，也赶不上现在的日产量；没人管得了一百万人；更关键的是，手工产品贵得没人买得起。就算能组织起来，光占地和搬运就浪费大量人力，工资可能一天只有一两毛钱。因为付工资的不是雇主，雇主只是管钱，真正付工资的是产品，而管理的作用是安排生产，让产品付得起工资。
上下文
福特在自传中反驳“全靠熟练工”的设想，解释为什么必须用分工和流水线来降低成本和价格。
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你所在的组织，是在让产品付工资，还是让流程空转消耗工资？
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