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亨利·福特:我的生活与工作·补录 327

亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导

The farmer does not stand so much in need of new tools as of power to run the tools that he has. I have followed many a weary mile behind a plough and I know all the drudgery of it. What a waste it is for a human being to spend hours and days behind a slowly moving team of horses when in the same time a tractor could do six times as much work! It is no wonder that, doing everything slowly and by hand, the average farmer has not been able to earn more than a bare living while farm products are never as plentiful and cheap as they ought to be.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7213
定位:Additional excerpt 327 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

农民真正缺的不是新工具,而是驱动现有工具的动力。福特说自己曾跟在犁后走过多余的英里,深知其中的苦役。一个人跟在慢吞吞的马队后面花上几小时几天,而拖拉机同样时间能完成六倍的工作,这是巨大的浪费。正因为一切靠手工缓慢进行,普通农民只能勉强糊口,农产品也总是不够丰富便宜。所以,提高动力效率是解放农民、降低食品成本的关键。

上下文

福特在自传中结合自己农场经历,说明农民需要的是动力而非新工具,以此论证拖拉机的价值。

今日一问

你的工作中,有哪些环节还在靠“人力慢速”完成,其实可以用动力工具大幅提效?

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