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托斯丹·凡勃伦:有闲阶级论·摘录 128

托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资

It has already been noted in an earlier connection, that in order to have the highest serviceability in the complex industrial processes of today, the individual must be endowed with the aptitude and the habit of readily apprehending and relating facts in terms of causal sequence. Both as a whole and in its details, the industrial process is a process of quantitative causation. The "intelligence" demanded of the workman, as well as of the director of an industrial process, is little else than a degree of facility in the apprehension of and adaptation to a quantitatively determined causal sequence. This facility of apprehension and adaptation is what is lacking in stupid workmen, and the growth of this facility is the end sought in their education--so far as their education aims to enhance their industrial efficiency.

出处: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/833
定位:Excerpt 128 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

凡勃伦指出,现代工业流程本质上是数量因果链,工人和管理者需要的“智力”就是快速理解并适应这种因果序列的能力。笨工人缺的就是这种理解力,而教育若想提升工业效率,就该培养这种能力。换句话说,工业社会要的不是死记硬背,而是能看清事情前后因果、按事实调整行动的人。今天我们可以这样用:遇到问题先拆因果链,问“什么导致什么”,再决定怎么做。

上下文

凡勃伦在《有闲阶级论》中分析工业效率与思维习惯的关系,强调因果认知的重要性。

今日一问

你手头的工作,能不能画出一条清晰的因果链,说明每一步为什么导致下一步?

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