體力勞動

Why you can have an economy of people who don’t sweat
爲「不流汗的經濟」辯護


FT專欄作家約翰•凱:現在,體力勞動不值錢,因爲世界不缺乏人手。現代生活中標誌性的製造業產品是iPod、巡弋飛彈、偉哥藥片和可口可樂。

Manufacturing fetishism is back. It is easy to understand why. People have made large amounts of money for themselves – and occasionally have claimed to be creating large amounts of wealth for society – by exchanging bits of paper. But since the financial crisis of 2007-08, the public views this process with increased scepticism. The claim that real wealth can only be achieved by making things falls today on receptive ears. You can’t have an economy of hairdressers, the saying goes.

製造業拜物教正捲土重來,其中原因不難理解。通過交換一些票據,人們爲自己掙了很多錢,並偶爾宣稱正在爲社會創造鉅額財富。但是自2007-08年金融危機以來,公衆越來越懷疑這種過程。現在,真正的財富只能通過製造產品實現的說法獲得了認可。俗話說,你不可能擁有理髮師經濟。

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