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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 175
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
When can a wage be considered adequate? How much of a living is reasonably to be expected from work? Have you ever considered what a wage does or ought to do? To say that it should pay the cost of living is to say almost nothing. The cost of living depends largely upon the efficiency of production and transportation; and the efficiency of these is the sum of the efficiencies of the management and the workers. Good work, well managed, ought to result in high wages and low living costs. If we attempt to regulate wages on living costs, we get nowhere. The cost of living is a result and we cannot expect to keep a result constant if we keep altering the factors which produce the result. When we try to regulate wages according to the cost of living, we are imitating a dog chasing his tail. And, anyhow, who is competent to say just what kind of living we shall base the costs on? Let us broaden our view and see what a wage is to the workmen--and what it ought to be.
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定位：Additional excerpt 175 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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工资何时算足够？工作应合理带来多少生活？工资应做什么？说工资应支付生活成本几乎等于没说，因为生活成本主要取决于生产和运输效率，而效率是管理和工人效率的总和。管理良好的好工作应带来高工资和低生活成本。试图根据生活成本调节工资是徒劳的，生活成本是结果，不能改变因素却保持结果不变。根据生活成本调工资就像狗追尾巴。况且，谁有资格说该以何种生活为基础？让我们拓宽视野，看工资对工人意味着什么、应该是什么。
上下文
福特在《我的生活与工作》中质疑以生活成本定工资的传统思路。
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你所在组织的工资设定是基于生活成本，还是基于生产效率和价值贡献？
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