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弗雷德里克·巴斯夏：经济诡辩·摘录 32
弗雷德里克·巴斯夏《经济诡辩》· Economic Sophisms · 投资
The physician, for example, does not bake his own bread, or manufacture his own instruments, or weave or make his own coat. Others do these things for him, and in return he treats the diseases with which his patients are afflicted. The more numerous, severe, and frequent these diseases are, the more others consent, and are obliged, to do for his personal comfort. Regarding it from this point of view, disease, that general obstacle to human happiness, becomes a cause of material prosperity to the individual physician. The same argument applies to all producers in their several departments. The shipowner derives his profits from the obstacle called _distance_; the agriculturist from that called _hunger_; the manufacturer of cloth from that called _cold_; the schoolmaster lives upon _ignorance_; the lapidary upon _vanity_; the attorney on _cupidity_; the notary upon possible _bad faith_,--just as the physician lives upon the diseases of men. It is quite true, therefore, that each profession has an immediate interest in the continuation, nay in the extension, of the special obstacle which it is its business to combat.
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定位：Excerpt 32 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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巴斯夏用医生举例：医生不自己烤面包、做工具、织布做衣，别人替他做这些，他则治病作为回报。病人越多、病越重越频繁，别人就越愿意也越不得不为他的舒适出力。于是疾病这个人类幸福的大障碍，反倒成了医生个人物质繁荣的原因。同样，船主靠“距离”获利，农民靠“饥饿”，布商靠“寒冷”，教师靠“无知”，宝石匠靠“虚荣”，律师靠“贪欲”，公证人靠可能的“背信”。所以每个行业都直接关心它要对付的那个特殊障碍持续甚至扩大。但这是分工的视角，不是主张障碍本身好。
上下文
巴斯夏以医生等职业为例，说明每个行业都直接关心其要克服的障碍持续存在。
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你的行业靠哪个“障碍”吃饭？你能把服务转向减少它吗？
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