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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏:经济诡辩·摘录 133

弗雷德里克·巴斯夏《经济诡辩》· Economic Sophisms · 投资

If you urge that the light of the sun is a gratuitous gift of nature, and that to reject such gifts is to reject wealth itself under pretence of encouraging the means of acquiring it, we would caution you against giving a death-blow to your own policy. Remember that hitherto you have always repelled foreign products, because they approximate more nearly than home products to the character of gratuitous gifts. To comply with the exactions of other monopolists, you have only _half a motive_; and to repulse us simply because we stand on a stronger vantage-ground than others would be to adopt the equation, + x + = -; in other words, it would be to heap _absurdity upon absurdity_.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
定位:Excerpt 133 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

如果你们辩称阳光是自然的免费礼物,拒绝这种礼物就是以鼓励获取财富的手段为借口拒绝财富本身,那我们要提醒你们:别给自己的政策致命一击。记住,你们一直排斥外国产品,正是因为它们比本国产品更接近免费礼物。对其他垄断者的要求,你们只有一半动机去满足;而仅仅因为我们站在更有利的地位就排斥我们,等于把等式写成 +x+=-,也就是荒谬之上再加荒谬。

上下文

巴斯夏继续用“阳光垄断”的比喻,揭露保护主义者既排斥廉价外国货又承认自然免费礼物好的矛盾。

今日一问

你是否一边享受免费好处,一边又拒绝更便宜的外国货?

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