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the bastiat collection volume 1 phần 4

Đối với, nếu đúng, hệ quả tất yếu của nó là gì? Đó có là không hoạt động, sự thịnh vượng, giàu có, hay hạnh phúc có thể cho bất kỳ người nào, trừ những người ngu ngốc và trơ, mà Thiên Chúa đã không được cấp món quà chết người biết làm thế nào để suy nghĩ, quan sát, kết hợp, để phát minh ra , và để có được những kết quả lớn nhất với các phương tiện nhỏ nhất. trên | What Is Money 121 F. And here you fall into the common mistake of concluding that what affects one affects all and thus confusing the individual with the general interest. B. Why what can be more conclusive What is true of one must be so of all. What are all but a collection of individuals You might as well tell me that every American could suddenly grow an inch taller without the average height of all the Americans being increased. F. Your reasoning is apparently sound I grant you and that is why the illusion it conceals is so common. However let us examine it a little. Ten persons were gambling. For greater ease they had adopted the plan of each taking ten chips and against these they each placed a hundred dollars under a candlestick so that each chip corresponded to ten dollars. After the game the winnings were adjusted and the players drew from under the candlestick as many dollars as would represent the number of chips. Seeing this one of them a great arithmetician perhaps but an indifferent reasoner said Gentlemen experience invariably teaches me that at the end of the game I find myself a gainer in proportion to the number of my chips. Have you not observed the same with regard to yourselves Thus what is true of me must be true of each of you and what is true of each must be true of all. We should therefore all of us gain more at the end of the game if we all had more chips. Now nothing can be easier we have only to distribute twice the number of chips. This was done but when the game was finished and they came to adjust the winnings it was found that the money under the candlestick had not been miraculously multiplied according to the general expectation. They had to be divided accordingly and the only result obtained chimerical enough was this every one had it is true his double number of chips but every chip instead of corresponding to ten dollars only represented five. Thus it was clearly shown that what is true of each is not always true of all. B. I .