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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 342
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
No mechanic working with only his hands can earn more than a bare sustenance. He cannot have a surplus. It has been taken for granted that, coming into old age, a mechanic must be supported by his children or, if he has no children, that he will be a public charge. All of that is quite unnecessary. The subdivision of industry opens places that can be filled by practically any one. There are more places in subdivision industry that can be filled by blind men than there are blind men. There are more places that can be filled by cripples than there are cripples. And in each of these places the man who short-sightedly might be considered as an object of charity can earn just as adequate a living as the keenest and most able-bodied. It is waste to put an able-bodied man in a job that might be just as well cared for by a cripple. It is a frightful waste to put the blind at weaving baskets. It is waste to have convicts breaking stone or picking hemp or doing any sort of petty, useless task.
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定位：Additional excerpt 342 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
白话
福特指出，仅靠双手干活的技工只能勉强糊口，无法有积蓄。人们曾认为技工老了必须靠子女或成为公共负担，但这完全没必要。工业细分开辟了几乎任何人都能填补的岗位。在细分工业中，能由盲人胜任的岗位比盲人还多，能由跛子胜任的岗位比跛子还多。在这些岗位上，那些被短视地视为慈善对象的人，能挣得和最能干的人一样足够的生计。让健全人去做跛子也能做好的工作是浪费；让盲人编篮子、让囚犯砸石头或剥麻做琐碎无用的事，更是可怕浪费。
上下文
福特在书中批评传统慈善和监狱劳动的低效，主张通过工业分工让每个人发挥生产力。
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你身边是否有被低估的人，其实可以胜任某些工作，只是岗位没被合理设计？
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