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托斯丹·凡勃伦:有闲阶级论·摘录 25
托斯丹·凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》· The Theory of the Leisure Class · 投资
In the nature of the case, the desire for wealth can scarcely be satiated in any individual instance, and evidently a satiation of the average or general desire for wealth is out of the question. However widely, or equally, or "fairly", it may be distributed, no general increase of the community's wealth can make any approach to satiating this need, the ground of which is the desire of every one to excel every one else in the accumulation of goods. If, as is sometimes assumed, the incentive to accumulation were the want of subsistence or of physical comfort, then the aggregate economic wants of a community might conceivably be satisfied at some point in the advance of industrial efficiency; but since the struggle is substantially a race for reputability on the basis of an invidious comparison, no approach to a definitive attainment is possible.
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定位:Excerpt 25 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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人对财富的欲望几乎无法满足,因为大家真正追求的是在积累财物上压过别人。就算财富分配得再公平,社会整体再富裕,也填不满这个坑。如果积累只是为了吃饱穿暖,那工业效率提高后或许能满足;但实际是一场比谁更体面的竞赛,永远没有终点。所以别指望靠多赚钱来获得终极满足,那是个无底洞。
上下文
凡勃伦《有闲阶级论》讨论财富欲望与炫耀性消费,认为积累动机源于攀比而非生存需要。
今日一问
你最近一次想多赚钱,是为了实际需要,还是为了不输给身边的人?
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