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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏:经济诡辩·摘录 223

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

Or else, the discoveries of the human mind limit the amount of manual labour, as special facts appear to indicate; for I see every day some machine or other superseding twenty or a hundred workmen; and then I am forced to acknowledge a flagrant, eternal, and incurable antithesis between the intellectual and physical powers of man--between his progress and his present wellbeing; and in these circumstances I am forced to say that the Creator of man might have endowed him with reason, or with physical strength, with moral force, or with brute force; but that He mocked him by conferring on him, at the same time, faculties which are destructive of each other.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44145
定位:Excerpt 223 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

另一种可能是:人的发明真的会限制体力劳动,因为每天都有机器取代几十上百个工人。若如此,人的智力进步和体力就业就永远对立,造物主给了人理性又给了人体力,却让它们互相摧毁,这等于在嘲弄人。巴斯夏把这个悲观结论摆出来,不是要你接受,而是让你看到:只盯着眼前被替代的岗位,就会得出这种绝望结论;必须看整体和长远,才能跳出这个陷阱。

上下文

这是巴斯夏设的两难的另一端:如果只信局部现象,就会推出技术进步与就业永久对立的结论。

今日一问

你判断技术影响就业时,是只看被替代的岗位,还是也看新创造的岗位?

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