Oct
21
“人々が卵により少ないお金しか払わずに済むとき、他のものに費やせるお金は増えるわ。その未使用のお金は使うのに値するのよ。それが起業家や創造的な人々が新しいものを注目されるに値するものにしようとしている理由なのよ。卵や他の安くなっていく数百万の製品でのコスト削減がないと、新しい何かを手に入れることは古い何かを手放すことを意味するの。生産性や取引を通じてものをより安くしているとき、それは私たちがケーキを手に入れそれを食べることもできることを意味しているのよ。私たちは卵や、iPodや、人工のバラの実や、その他の人生をより良いものにしてくれる全てのものをより多く手に入れることができるのよ。
(When people pay less for eggs, they have more money left over to spend on other things. That unspent money is a prize that hands itself out. That’s why entrepreneurs, creative people, are always trying to come up with new things to claim those prizes. Without cost-savings from eggs and millions of other products that have gotten cheaper, getting something new means giving up something old. When we make things more cheaply through either productivity or trade, that means we can have our cake and eat it too. We can have more eggs and more iPod and more artificial hips and everything else that makes life good.)” Ruth Lieber “The Price of Everything” P.141
(When people pay less for eggs, they have more money left over to spend on other things. That unspent money is a prize that hands itself out. That’s why entrepreneurs, creative people, are always trying to come up with new things to claim those prizes. Without cost-savings from eggs and millions of other products that have gotten cheaper, getting something new means giving up something old. When we make things more cheaply through either productivity or trade, that means we can have our cake and eat it too. We can have more eggs and more iPod and more artificial hips and everything else that makes life good.)” Ruth Lieber “The Price of Everything” P.141
