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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 338
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
Professional charity is not only cold but it hurts more than it helps. It degrades the recipients and drugs their self-respect. Akin to it is sentimental idealism. The idea went abroad not so many years ago that "service" was something that we should expect to have done for us. Untold numbers of people became the recipients of well-meant "social service." Whole sections of our population were coddled into a state of expectant, child-like helplessness. There grew up a regular profession of doing things for people, which gave an outlet for a laudable desire for service, but which contributed nothing whatever to the self-reliance of the people nor to the correction of the conditions out of which the supposed need for such service grew.
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定位：Additional excerpt 338 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特认为职业慈善不仅冷漠，而且害处大于好处：它贬低受助者，麻痹他们的自尊。类似的是感伤理想主义，几年前流行一种观念，认为“服务”是别人应该为我们做的事。于是无数人接受善意的“社会服务”，被呵护成期待帮助、像孩子一样无助的状态。结果出现了一种专门替人做事的职业，满足助人愿望，却无助于受助者自立，也没解决产生需求的根源。核心是：过度服务会制造依赖。
上下文
福特批评20世纪初美国社会服务运动，认为其导致受助者依赖。
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你提供的帮助，是在培养对方的自立，还是在制造依赖？
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