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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 355
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
If we can get away from charity, the funds that now go into charitable enterprises can be turned to furthering production--to making goods cheaply and in great plenty. And then we shall not only be removing the burden of taxes from the community and freeing men but also we can be adding to the general wealth. We leave for private interest too many things we ought to do for ourselves as a collective interest. We need more constructive thinking in public service. We need a kind of "universal training" in economic facts. The over-reaching ambitions of speculative capital, as well as the unreasonable demands of irresponsible labour, are due to ignorance of the economic basis of life. Nobody can get more out of life than life can produce--yet nearly everybody thinks he can. Speculative capital wants more; labour wants more; the source of raw material wants more; and the purchasing public wants more. A family knows that it cannot live beyond its income; even the children know that. But the public never seems to learn that it cannot live beyond its income--have more than it produces.
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定位：Additional excerpt 355 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特主张摆脱慈善模式，把捐给慈善的钱转去发展生产，让商品更便宜、更充足。这样既能减轻社区税负、解放个人，又能增加整体财富。太多本该由集体共同做的事，被留给了私人利益。公共服务需要更多建设性思考，需要普及经济常识。投机资本贪得无厌、不负责任的劳工提出过分要求，都源于不懂经济基础。没人能消费超过生活所能产出的东西，但几乎人人都以为自己能。家庭知道不能超支，公众却似乎永远学不会。
上下文
福特在《我的生活与工作》中批评慈善与投机，倡导以生产和经济常识为基础的公共政策。
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你个人或团队的支出与产出之间，是否也存在“以为能超过收入生活”的错觉？
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