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亨利·福特：我的生活与工作·补录 384
亨利·福特《我的生活与工作》· My Life and Work · 领导
A large proportion of our foreign trade is based on the backwardness of our foreign customers. Selfishness is a motive that would preserve that backwardness. Humanity is a motive that would help the backward nations to a self-supporting basis. Take Mexico, for example. We have heard a great deal about the "development" of Mexico. Exploitation is the word that ought instead to be used. When its rich natural resources are exploited for the increase of the private fortunes of foreign capitalists, that is not development, it is ravishment. You can never develop Mexico until you develop the Mexican. And yet how much of the "development" of Mexico by foreign exploiters ever took account of the development of its people? The Mexican peon has been regarded as mere fuel for the foreign money-makers. Foreign trade has been his degradation.
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定位：Additional excerpt 384 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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福特指出，大部分对外贸易建立在外国客户的落后之上。自私的动机想保持这种落后，而人道的动机则想帮助落后国家实现自立。以墨西哥为例，所谓“开发”实为“剥削”。当自然资源被外国资本家用来增加私人财富时，那不是发展，而是掠夺。除非墨西哥人得到发展，否则墨西哥永远无法发展。然而，外国剥削者对墨西哥的“开发”有多少考虑过人民的发展？墨西哥苦力被视为外国赚钱者的燃料。对外贸易成了他的堕落。
上下文
福特在书中批评美国对墨西哥等国的经济剥削，强调真正的发展应惠及当地人民。
今日一问
我们今天的投资和贸易，是帮助了当地人的成长，还是仅仅在利用他们的落后？
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