关键要点
- PG 赞成堵住靠歪门邪道致富的路，但那消灭不了巨大的财富差异：只要留下“靠创造财富致富”这条路，想致富的人就会走这条路。
- 致富的人通常不懒：如果金融业赚不到大钱，他们不会满足于普通薪水——想致富的人会去创办创业公司，而且会做得不错，因为决心是创业成败的主因。
- 生产率差异是经济不平等不可约的核心：个人创造财富的速度取决于技术，而技术指数增长；且创造财富能容纳很多人。
- 消除巨大财富差异=消除创业公司，这不明智；而且你只消灭了自己国家的创业公司——有野心的人会搬到半个地球外继续干。
- 硅谷信条“you make what you measure”（你度量什么，就会改善什么）：不平等与贫困、社会流动性不足只是概念相邻，瞄准不平等修不好这些问题——要瞄准问题本身。
- 对策：攻击贫困（必要时连带损伤财富），打击靠欺骗消费者、游说反竞争法规、钻税法漏洞致富的人——因为那是偷窃，而不是因为它造成不平等。
—— 本文选自东西书院 dongxishuyuan.com
PG 原话
你无法在不阻止人们致富的情况下阻止巨大的财富差异，而不阻止人们创办创业公司，你就无法阻止他们致富。
You cant prevent great variations in wealth without preventing people from getting rich, and you cant do that without preventing them from starting startups.
如果我们瞄准经济不平等，这些问题修不好。所以我说，让我们瞄准问题本身。
If we aim at economic inequality, we wont fix these problems. So I say lets aim at the problems.
出处
- 英文原题：Economic Inequality（2016年1月）
- 原文：https://www.paulgraham.com/ineq.html
- 本书院编译 · 底本为 paulgraham.com 英文原典
中文为本书院编译（意译），关键英文术语保留原文；英文引文逐字核验为原典连续子串。
延伸阅读 · 跨篇互见
人们对经济不平等最常见的错误是把它当成单一现象，背后是“馅饼谬误”：富人靠从穷人手里抢钱致富。
The most common mistake people make about economic inequality is to treat it as a single phenomenon. The most naive version of which is the one based on the pie fallacy: that the rich get rich by taking money from the poor.
In the real world you can create wealth as well as taking it from others. A woodworker creates wealth. He makes a chair, and you willingly give him money in return for it. A high-frequency trader does not. He makes a dollar only when someone on the other end of a trade loses a dollar.
场景交集：决策、判断力、选择方向出处：Economic Inequality · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
政治极化、文化失语、不平等加剧是同一现象：不是有力量在撕裂我们，而是曾把我们推向一起的力量在消退。
Id like to propose a hypothesis: that all these trends are instances of the same phenomenon. And moreover, that the cause is not some force thats pulling us apart, but rather the erosion of forces that had been pushing us together.
The two forces were war (above all World War II), and the rise of large corporations.
场景交集：决策、判断力、选择方向出处：The Refragmentation · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
技术是放大工作的杠杆且越变越长；对抗碎片化是徒劳，不如想办法缓解它的后果。
Technology is a lever. It magnifies work. And the lever not only grows increasingly long, but the rate at which it grows is itself increasing.
That form of fragmentation, like the others, is here to stay. Or rather, back to stay. Nothing is forever, but the tendency toward fragmentation should be more forever than most things, precisely because its not due to any particular cause. Its simply a reversion to the mean.
场景交集：决策、判断力、选择方向出处：The Refragmentation · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
出版业卖的从来不是内容，而是介质
出版商卖的一直是纸张等介质而非内容本身；介质消失后，内容要么免费靠间接变现，要么做成值得付费的实体。
In fact consumers never really were paying for content, and publishers werent really selling it either.
Economically, the print media are in the business of marking up paper.
场景交集：决策、判断力、选择方向出处：Post-Medium Publishing · paulgraham.com 原文 ↗
本区为 L2 延展案例（跨篇互见）：PG 其他原典中的相关论述，仍属原典直读；引文均为逐字核验。解读与主编观点见 L3（筹备中）。