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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 283
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
But money should always be money. A foot is always twelve inches, but when is a dollar a dollar? If ton weights changed in the coal yard, and peck measures changed in the grocery, and yard sticks were to-day 42 inches and to-morrow 33 inches (by some occult process called "exchange") the people would mighty soon remedy that. When a dollar is not always a dollar, when the 100-cent dollar becomes the 65-cent dollar, and then the 50-cent dollar, and then the 47-cent dollar, as the good old American gold and silver dollars did, what is the use of yelling about "cheap money," "depreciated money"? A dollar that stays 100 cents is as necessary as a pound that stays 16 ounces and a yard that stays 36 inches.
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钱应该始终是钱。一英尺永远是十二英寸,可一美元什么时候是一美元?如果煤场的吨秤、杂货店的配克量、码尺今天四十二英寸明天三十三英寸,人们早就纠正了。美元若从一百美分变成六十五、五十、四十七美分,光喊“廉价货币”“贬值货币”有什么用?稳定的美元就像稳定的磅和码一样必要。
上下文
福特在《我的生活与工作》中批评货币购买力不稳定,用度量衡作比喻。
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如果尺子每天变长变短,你会怎么办?钱贬值时你做了什么?
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