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保罗·格雷厄姆:如何创造财富·第7则
保罗·格雷厄姆《《如何创造财富》》· How to Make Wealth · 投资 · 财富 · 行动 · 领导
Was it that Europeans are somehow racially superior? Was it their religion? The answer (or at least the proximate cause) may be that the Europeans rode on the crest of a powerful new idea: allowing those who made a lot of money to keep it. Once you're allowed to do that, people who want to get rich can do it by generating wealth instead of stealing it. The resulting technological growth translates not only into wealth but into military power. The theory that led to the stealth plane was developed by a Soviet mathematician. But because the Soviet Union didn't have a computer industry, it remained for them a theory; they didn't have hardware capable of executing the calculations fast enough to design an actual airplane.
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定位:Essay, additional excerpt 7 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录
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欧洲近代的崛起,原因可能不是种族或宗教优越,而是一个强大的新观念:让赚到钱的人保留自己的钱。一旦允许这样做,想致富的人就会通过创造财富而不是掠夺来致富。由此带来的技术增长不仅转化为财富,也转化为军事力量。例如,隐身飞机的理论由苏联数学家提出,但苏联没有计算机产业,理论无法变成实际飞机,因为缺少足够快的硬件来执行设计计算。这说明,保护财富创造者的制度,比单纯的天才更重要。
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格雷厄姆用欧洲崛起和隐身飞机案例,说明允许创造者保留财富的制度优势。
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你所在的環境,是否让创造价值的人得到合理回报?你能推动什么小改变?
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