Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer

翻译人员: Yumeng Guo 校对人员: Yuanqing Edberg

You probably don't know me,

你也许不知道我是谁，

but I am one of those .01 percenters

我是你经常听到或读到的

that you hear about and read about,

那前1%的高收入者，

and I am by any reasonable definition a plutocrat.

所以我是一个铁定的富豪。

And tonight, what I would like to do is speak directly

今晚，我要做的是

to other plutocrats, to my people,

跟其他富豪、我的伙伴们谈一谈，

because it feels like it's time for us all

因为我感觉现在是时候

to have a chat.

进行这场谈话了。

Like most plutocrats, I too am a proud

身为一名坚定不移的资本主义者，

and unapologetic capitalist.

跟大多富豪一样，我也为之感到自豪。

I have founded, cofounded or funded

我已在诸多行业

over 30 companies across a range of industries.

单独或共同创立、投资了 30多家公司。

I was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com.

我是Amazon.com的 第一位非家族成员投资者。

I cofounded a company called aQuantive

我与他人合伙创立了 一家名为aQuantive的公司，

that we sold to Microsoft for 6.4 billion dollars.

以64亿美金高价出售给微软公司。

My friends and I, we own a bank.

我与几个朋友拥有一家银行。

I tell you this — (Laughter) —

我告诉你们这些——（笑声）——

unbelievable, right?

听起来难以置信，是吧？

I tell you this to show

我说这些是想告诉你们

that my life is like most plutocrats.

我的生活跟大多富豪一样。

I have a broad perspective on capitalism

我在商务和资本上

and business,

视野开阔，运筹帷幄，

and I have been rewarded obscenely for that

丰硕的回报让我过上了一种

with a life that most of you all

你们无法想像

can't even imagine:

的生活：

multiple homes, a yacht, my own plane,

诸多房产，一辆游艇，私人飞机，

etc., etc., etc.

等等等等。

But let's be honest: I am not the smartest person you've ever met.

但实话实说：我并不是你们 遇到过的最聪明的人，

I am certainly not the hardest working.

也肯定不是工作最努力的，

I was a mediocre student.

在学生时代我位于中游，

I'm not technical at all.

我根本不懂技术，

I can't write a word of code.

我甚至码不出一行代码。

Truly, my success is the consequence

说实话，我的成功源自

of spectacular luck,

极佳的运气、

of birth, of circumstance and of timing.

出身、境遇和时机。

But I am actually pretty good at a couple of things.

但有些事情我确实非常在行。

One, I have an unusually high tolerance for risk,

其一，我对风险有异常高的承受力，

and the other is I have a good sense,

另外，我有很好的直觉，

a good intuition about what will happen in the future,

良好的直觉告诉我未来会发生什么，

and I think that that intuition about the future

我认为这种对未来的直觉

is the essence of good entrepreneurship.

对优秀的企业家而言是必不可少的。

So what do I see in our future today,

你会问，

you ask?

如今我预测未来会发生什么？

I see pitchforks,

我看到干草叉，

as in angry mobs with pitchforks,

愤怒的暴民手中的干草叉，

because while people like us plutocrats

因为当我们这样的富豪

are living beyond the dreams of avarice,

已不再视攫取钱财为梦想时，

the other 99 percent of our fellow citizens

另外99%的普通国民

are falling farther and farther behind.

却远远地落在我们身后。

In 1980, the top one percent of Americans

在1980年，前1%高收入者的收入

shared about eight percent of national [income],

占全美总收入的8%，

while the bottom 50 percent of Americans

而底层的50%美国人的收入

shared 18 percent.

占18%。

Thirty years later, today, the top one percent

30年后的今天，前1%高收入者的收入

shares over 20 percent of national [income],

占全美总收入的20%，

while the bottom 50 percent of Americans

而底层的50%美国人的收入

share 12 or 13.

占12%到13%。

If the trend continues,

如果这个趋势持续下去，

the top one percent will share

前1%的高收入者的收入

over 30 percent of national [income]

在30年内

in another 30 years,

while the bottom 50 percent of Americans

而底层的50%的美国人的收入

will share just six.

只占到6%。

You see, the problem isn't that we have

你们看，问题不在于社会

some inequality.

存在一定的不平等。

Some inequality is necessary

一定的不平等对于资本主义民主的

for a high-functioning capitalist democracy.

高速运作是必不可少的。

The problem is that inequality

问题在于今天的不平等程度

is at historic highs today

已达历史峰值，

and it's getting worse every day.

而且日益严重。

And if wealth, power, and income

如果财富、权力和收入

continue to concentrate

持续集中

at the very tippy top,

在极少数人手里，

our society will change

我们的社会就会从

from a capitalist democracy

资本主义民主转变为

to a neo-feudalist rentier society

18世纪法国那样的

like 18th-century France.

新封建食利者社会。

That was France

那是法国

before the revolution

在大革命之前

and the mobs with the pitchforks.

还有手持干草叉的暴民。

So I have a message for my fellow plutocrats

因此我有些话要对我的富豪伙伴们说，

and zillionaires

要对那些亿万富翁

and for anyone who lives

和生活在

in a gated bubble world:

“封闭的泡沫世界”的人说：

Wake up.

警醒吧。

Wake up. It cannot last.

警醒吧。这是无法持续的。

Because if we do not do something

如果我们无所作为，

to fix the glaring economic inequities in our society,

放任社会里这些极端的经济不平等，

the pitchforks will come for us,

干草叉就会向我们袭来，

for no free and open society can long sustain

任何一个自由开放的社会都无法长期承受

this kind of rising economic inequality.

这种持续恶化的不平等。

It has never happened. There are no examples.

从没发生过。没有先例。

You show me a highly unequal society,

你若能举出一个极端不平等的社会的例子，

and I will show you a police state

我会告诉你要么那是一个极权国家，

or an uprising.

要么起义就要爆发了。

The pitchforks will come for us

如果我们不解决这个问题，

if we do not address this.

干草叉就会向我们袭来。

It's not a matter of if, it's when.

这不是是否会发生的问题，而是什么时候发生的问题。

And it will be terrible when they come

若问题终将来临，

for everyone,

对所有人，

but particularly for people like us plutocrats.

尤其是对我们富豪，都是很可怕的。

I know I must sound like some liberal do-gooder.

我知道我听起来像极了空想的社会改良家。

I'm not. I'm not making a moral argument

我不是。我不是从道义上论说

that economic inequality is wrong.

经济不平等是错误的。

What I am arguing is that rising economic inequality

我所论说的是，日益严重的经济不平等

is stupid and ultimately self-defeating.

是愚蠢的，是自掘坟墓。

Rising inequality doesn't just increase our risks

日趋严重的不平等

from pitchforks,

不只增加我们受干草叉袭击的风险，

but it's also terrible for business too.

对商业而言也是可怕的。

So the model for us rich guys should be Henry Ford.

我们这些富人的榜样是亨利•福特。

When Ford famously introduced the $5 day,

福特引入时薪$5的举措广为人知，

which was twice the prevailing wage at the time,

时薪$5是当时通用标准的两倍，

he didn't just increase the productivity

这不仅提升了

of his factories,

福特工厂的生产力，

he converted exploited autoworkers who were poor

他使得被剥削的贫困的汽车工人，

into a thriving middle class who could now afford

成为蒸蒸日上的中产阶级，

to buy the products that they made.

有能力购买自家产品。

Ford intuited what we now know is true,

福特的直觉在今天被证明是正确的，

that an economy is best understood as an ecosystem

即把经济理解为生态系统，

and characterized by the same kinds

在自然的经济系统中，

of feedback loops you find

经济也具有

in a natural ecosystem,

反馈回路的特性，

a feedback loop between customers and businesses.

一种由消费者和企业形成的反馈回路。

Raising wages increases demand,

提高工人薪水将增加社会需求，

which increases hiring,

会促进雇佣，

which in turn increases wages

进而增加薪水、

and demand and profits,

社会需求和企业利润。

and that virtuous cycle of increasing prosperity

这种促进繁荣的良性循环

is precisely what is missing

from today's economic recovery.

过程中缺乏的。

And this is why we need to put behind us

这就是为何我们要摒弃

the trickle-down policies that so dominate

两党都全力支持的政策——

both political parties

涓流经济政策

and embrace something I call middle-out economics.

而要信奉被我称为“中产辐射”的经济。

Middle-out economics rejects

中产辐射经济

the neoclassical economic idea

颠覆了新古典主义经济学思想

that economies are efficient, linear, mechanistic,

后者认为经济是有效率的、线性的、机械的，

that they tend towards equilibrium and fairness,

且经济趋向于平衡和平等，

and instead embraces the 21st-century idea

而中产辐射经济拥护二十一世纪的观点，

that economies are complex, adaptive,

即经济是复杂的，适应性的

ecosystemic,

生态的经济系统，

that they tend away from equilibrium and toward inequality,

它们偏离平衡，趋向不平等，

that they're not efficient at all

根本就没有效率，

but are effective if well managed.

但如果管控得好，经济是可以有效的。

This 21st-century perspective

二十一世纪的观点让你清楚地看到，

allows you to clearly see that capitalism

资本主义的运作，

does not work by [efficiently] allocating

不是通过有效地分配

existing resources.

现有资源。

It works by [efficiently] creating new solutions

而是通过有效地为

to human problems.

人类面临的问题创造新解决方案。

The genius of capitalism

资本主义的智慧在于，

is that it is an evolutionary solution-finding system.

它是一个不断发展的“寻求解决方案”的系统。

It rewards people for solving other people's problems.

它会回报那些解决他人问题的人。

The difference between a poor society

落后的社会和

and a rich society, obviously,

先进的社会的区别，很明显，

is the degree to which that society

在于该社会创造

has generated solutions in the form

解决方案的程度有多深，

of products for its citizens.

让民众受恩受惠。

The sum of the solutions

解决方案汇聚成丰硕果实，

that we have in our society

促进社会繁荣，

really is our prosperity, and this explains

这也就说明了为何

why companies like Google and Amazon

像谷歌、亚马逊、

and Microsoft and Apple

微软、苹果

and the entrepreneurs who created those companies

以及创立这些公司的企业家们

have contributed so much

为我们国家的繁荣昌盛

to our nation's prosperity.

做出了巨大的贡献。

This 21st-century perspective

二十一世纪的观点

also makes clear

也明确表明，

that what we think of as economic growth

经济发展速度

is best understood as

应理解为

the rate at which we solve problems.

解决问题的速度。

But that rate is totally dependent upon

但这个速度完全由这两方面决定：

how many problem solvers —

其一，我们有多少问题解决者——

diverse, able problem solvers — we have,

多样的、有能力的解决者；

and thus how many of our fellow citizens

其二，有多少民众

actively participate,

积极参与，

both as entrepreneurs who can offer solutions,

包括提供解决方案的企业家，

and as customers who consume them.

以及购买产品的消费者。

But this maximizing participation thing

但参与的最大程度

doesn't happen by accident.

不会出于偶然，

It doesn't happen by itself.

不会自己增加。

It requires effort and investment,

这需要努力与投资，

which is why all

这就是为什么

highly prosperous capitalist democracies

所有高度繁荣的资本主义民主

are characterized by massive investments

都以发展中产阶级为特点，

in the middle class and the infrastructure

并给予中产阶级

that they depend on.

有依靠的基础设施。

We plutocrats need to get this

我们富豪应该

trickle-down economics thing behind us,

摒弃涓流经济——

this idea that the better we do,

我们一小部分人越富有，

the better everyone else will do.

其他所有人也都会富有。

It's not true. How could it be?

这个观念是不对的。怎么可能是对的呢？

I earn 1,000 times the median wage,

我的收入是中产阶级的1000倍，

but I do not buy 1,000 times as much stuff,

但我不会比他们多买1000倍的东西，

do I?

我会吗？

I actually bought two pairs of these pants,

事实上我买了两条这样的裤子，

what my partner Mike calls

我的合作伙伴麦克戏称

my manager pants.

那是“老板裤”。

I could have bought 2,000 pairs,

我可以买2000条，

but what would I do with them? (Laughter)

但买来干嘛呢？（笑声）

How many haircuts can I get?

我理多少次发？

How often can I go out to dinner?

我能下多少次馆子？

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get,

无论这小部分富豪多么富有，

we can never drive a great national economy.

我们永远不会大幅度推进全国经济。

Only a thriving middle class can do that.

只有不断壮大的中产阶级才能实现这一愿景。

There's nothing to be done,

现在什么都做不了，

my plutocrat friends might say.

我的富豪伙伴们也许会这么说。

Henry Ford was in a different time.

亨利•福特处在不同的时期，

Maybe we can't do some things.

也许今天的我们做不了什么。

Maybe we can do some things.

也许我们可以做些什么。

June 19, 2013,

2013年6月19号，

Bloomberg published an article I wrote called

Bloomberg刊登了一篇我写的文章，

"The Capitalist’s Case for a $15 Minimum Wage."

《时薪$15的资本实例》

The good people at Forbes magazine,

福布斯杂志社的一些善良的人，

among my biggest admirers,

包括我的仰慕者，

called it "Nick Hanauer's near-insane proposal."

称之为“尼克•汉诺尔的几近荒唐的提议。”

And yet, just 350 days

但是，就在我的文章

after that article was published,

发表之后的350天，

Seattle's Mayor Ed Murray signed into law

西雅图市长艾德•默里签署了一项新法案，

an ordinance raising the minimum wage in Seattle

提升西雅图市最低薪资标准，

to 15 dollars an hour,

至时薪$15，

more than double

达到联邦普遍的

what the prevailing federal $7.25 rate is.

$7.25两倍以上。

How did this happen,

这是如何发生的，

reasonable people might ask.

正常的人会问。

It happened because a group of us

原因是我们这一群人，

reminded the middle class

给他们提醒了

that they are the source

中产阶级才是

of growth and prosperity in capitalist economies.

资本主义经济繁荣发展的源泉。

We reminded them that when workers have more money,

我们提醒他们，当工人们腰包更鼓，

businesses have more customers,

商家就会有更多的客户，

and need more employees.

就需要雇佣更多的人。

We reminded them that when businesses

我们提醒他们，当雇主

pay workers a living wage,

为工人提供的工资足以生活，

taxpayers are relieved of the burden

纳税人就会卸下资助扶贫项目的重担，

of funding the poverty programs

而这些扶贫项目

like food stamps and medical assistance

包括食品救济券、医疗救助和

and rent assistance

房租津贴。

that those workers need.

正是那些工人需要的。

We reminded them that low-wage workers

我们提醒他们，工人的薪资过低

make terrible taxpayers,

会让纳税者难堪，

and that when you raise the minimum wage

当你提升

for all businesses,

所有行业的最低薪资标准，

all businesses benefit

所有行业都会受惠，

yet all can compete.

同时保持竞争力。

Now the orthodox reaction, of course,

话已至此，通常的回应会是，当然，

is raising the minimum wage costs jobs. Right?

提高最低薪资标准会缩减工作岗位数量。对吗？

Your politician's always echoing

支持涓流经济思想的政客，

that trickle-down idea by saying things like,

总是这样回应

"Well, if you raise the price of employment,

“雇佣成本若升高，

guess what happens? You get less of it."

你猜会怎样？工作岗位会减少。”

Are you sure?

你确定吗？

Because there's some contravening evidence.

因为这里有截然相反的事实。

Since 1980, the wages of CEOs in our country

自1980年以来，我们国家CEO的薪资

have gone from about 30 times the median wage

从公司薪资中值的30倍左右

to 500 times.

上升到500倍。

That's raising the price of employment.

这显然是提升了雇佣成本。

And yet, to my knowledge,

而且，据我所知，

I have never seen a company

我从没见过一个公司

outsource its CEO's job, automate their job,

把CEO职位外包出去，或用 机器人取代劳动力，

export the job to China.

或外包到中国。

In fact, we appear to be employing

事实上，我们前所未有地雇佣

more CEOs and senior managers than ever before.

更多的CEO和高管。

So too for technology workers

科技工作者和

and financial services workers,

金融服务人员也是如此，

who earn multiples of the median wage

他们的薪资水平是中值的许多倍，

and yet we employ more and more of them,

但我们越来越多地雇佣他们，

so clearly you can raise the price of employment

因此，很显然，提高雇佣成本的同时

and get more of it.

增加职位数量是可行的。

I know that most people

我知道大多数人认为

think that the $15 minimum wage

$15的最低薪资

is this insane, risky economic experiment.

是荒唐的，是有风险的经济试验。

We disagree.

我们不同意。

We believe that the $15 minimum wage

我们相信

in Seattle

西雅图$15的最低薪资

is actually the continuation

实际上是

of a logical economic policy.

合理经济政策的续篇。

It is allowing our city

这让我们的城市

to kick your city's ass.

促动你们的城市。

Because, you see,

因为，你们也看到了，

Washington state already has

华盛顿州的

the highest minimum wage

最低薪资标准

of any state in the nation.

在全美所有州中是最高的。

We pay all workers $9.32,

所有工人（平均）时薪是$9.32，

which is almost 30 percent more

几乎比联邦要求的

than the federal minimum of 7.25,

最低薪资$7.25高出30%，

but crucially, 427 percent more

更关键的是，它要比联邦要求的

than the federal tipped minimum of 2.13.

服务员$2.13的最低薪资标准高出427%。

If trickle-down thinkers were right,

如果涓流经济的观点是正确的，

then Washington state should have massive unemployment.

华盛顿州会有极高的失业率，

Seattle should be sliding into the ocean.

西雅图应该“跌入海底”了。

And yet, Seattle

但是，西雅图

is the fastest-growing big city in the country.

是全美发展最快的大城市。

Washington state is generating small business jobs

华盛顿州创造小型企业就业机会

at a higher rate than any other major state

的速度高于

in the nation.

全美任何州。

The restaurant business in Seattle? Booming.

西雅图餐饮行业？高速发展着。

Why? Because the fundamental law of capitalism is,

为什么？因为资本主义运作最基本的法则是，

when workers have more money,

当工人有更多的钱，

businesses have more customers

商家就会有更多的客户，

and need more workers.

需要更多的工人。

When restaurants pay restaurant workers enough

当餐馆为其员工支付的酬劳足够多，

so that even they can afford to eat in restaurants,

多到甚至他们都可以有钱在餐馆吃饭，

that's not bad for the restaurant business.

这对于餐饮业来说不是坏事，

That's good for it,

是好事，

despite what some restaurateurs may tell you.

即便某些餐馆店主也许不会这么说。

Is it more complicated than I'm making out?

现实是不是要比我描述的复杂得多？

Of course it is.

当然是的。

There are a lot of dynamics at play.

现实的不确定性因素太多了。

But can we please stop insisting

但能不能请我们不要再坚持这样的观点——

that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more,

如果低薪工人赚得多一点点，

unemployment will skyrocket

失业率就会井喷，

and the economy will collapse?

经济就会崩盘。

There is no evidence for it.

没有证据支持这个观点。

The most insidious thing

涓流经济

about trickle-down economics

最荒唐的地方，

is not the claim that if the rich get richer,

不在于它声称富人更富，

everyone is better off.

所有人都会更富，

It is the claim made by those who oppose

而在于那些反对

any increase in the minimum wage

提高最低薪资标准的人们的观点——

that if the poor get richer,

穷人有钱了，

that will be bad for the economy.

会对经济发展有负面影响。

This is nonsense.

这根本没有道理。

So can we please dispense with this rhetoric

能不能请我们摒弃这种说辞——

that says that rich guys like me

像我这样富有的家伙

and my plutocrat friends

和我的富豪伙伴们成就了

made our country?

我们国家的繁荣？

We plutocrats know,

我们富豪都知道，

even if we don't like to admit it in public,

即便我们不喜欢在公众面前承认，

that if we had been born somewhere else,

如果我们生在别处，

not here in the United States,

不是在美国，

we might very well be just some dude standing barefoot

我们很有可能是一位光脚站在

by the side of a dirt road selling fruit.

肮脏的路边卖水果的家伙。

It's not that they don't have good entrepreneurs in other places,

其他地方并不是没有优秀的企业家，

even very, very poor places.

即便是极为贫寒的地方，

It's just that that's all

只不过是那里的企业家面临的

that those entrepreneurs' customers can afford.

消费者购买力太过有限。

So here's an idea for a new kind of economics,

因此，我有一个全新的经济学观点，

a new kind of politics

一种全新的政治思想，

that I call new capitalism.

我称之为新资本主义。

Let's acknowledge that capitalism

我们先承认资本主义

beats the alternatives,

要比其他社会制度更为优越，

but also that the more people we include,

而且包括企业家和消费者在内的

both as entrepreneurs and as customers,

越多的人参与到这其中来，

the better it works.

资本主义的运作会更为有效。

Let's by all means shrink the size of government,

让我们尽一切办法缩减政府的规模，

but not by slashing the poverty programs,

不是通过削减扶贫项目，

but by ensuring that workers are paid enough

而是通过确保工人获得足够的薪水，

so that they actually don't need those programs.

让他们无须依赖这些政府项目。

Let's invest enough in the middle class

让我们大力投资中产阶级，

to make our economy fairer and more inclusive,

让经济社会更加公平，更加海纳百川，

and by fairer, more truly competitive,

通过更加平等而真实的竞争，

and by more truly competitive,

通过真正的竞争，

more able to generate the solutions

来更有能力地成形

to human problems

解决社会问题的方案

that are the true drivers of growth and prosperity.

而这些解决方案才是社会繁荣的真正推动者。

Capitalism is the greatest social technology

资本主义是人类社会科学

ever invented

最伟大的发明，

for creating prosperity in human societies,

只要管理得当，

if it is well managed,

它会为人类社会创造繁荣，

but capitalism, because of the fundamental

但资本主义基于

multiplicative dynamics of complex systems,

制度复杂的多种的运作机制上，

tends towards, inexorably, inequality,

资本主义势必会趋于不平等，

concentration and collapse.

财富的过度集中，以及经济崩溃。

The work of democracies

所谓民主，

is to maximize the inclusion of the many

是为创造繁荣，需最大限度地海纳百川，

in order to create prosperity,

而不是让财富聚集在少数人手里。

not to enable the few to accumulate money.

政府应营造企业家和消费者 共同发展的社会环境，

Government does create prosperity and growth,

来促进繁荣并推动发展。

by creating the conditions that allow

来创造一种现状能够

both entrepreneurs and their customers

使我这样的资本家和工人

to thrive.

都能发迹。

Balancing the power of capitalists like me

平衡像我这样的资本家

and workers isn't bad for capitalism.

和工人之间的权力对资本主义来说 并不是坏事。

It's essential to it.

而是必要的。

Programs like a reasonable minimum wage,

如合理的最低薪资标准，

affordable healthcare,

担负得起的医疗服务，

paid sick leave,

带薪的病假，

and the progressive taxation necessary

以及为重要基础设施建设、 中产阶级的教育和研发

to pay for the important infrastructure

提供必要支持的累进税制，

necessary for the middle class like education, R and D,

这些政府项目都是必不可少的， 而教育R和D项目

these are indispensable tools

都是精明的资本家

手里的必不可少的工具，

shrewd capitalists should embrace

用来推动利润增长，

to drive growth, because no one benefits from it

正是我们从中受惠，而不是其它人。

like us.

Many economists would have you believe

许多经济学家会说服你，

that their field is an objective science.

让你相信经济领域是客观的。

I disagree, and I think that it is equally

我不同意，我认为它也是

a tool that humans use

人们使用的工具，

to enforce and encode

用来施加

our social and moral preferences and prejudices

基于地位和权力上的

about status and power,

社会和道德的喜好与偏见。

which is why plutocrats like me

这就是为什么一些像我这样的富豪

have always needed to find persuasive stories

总在编一些故事，

to tell everyone else

试图说服所有人，

about why our relative positions

为什么我们高高在上的地位不可撼动，

are morally righteous and good for everyone:

且所有人都会因之受益：

like, we are indispensable, the job creators,

比如，我们这些雇主是不可缺少的， 是创造工作机会的，

and you are not;

而你们，可有可无；

like, tax cuts for us create growth,

比如，减免我们的赋税有利于经济增长，

but investments in you

而对你们的投资

will balloon our debt

会让负债激增，

and bankrupt our great country;

会让我们伟大的国家崩盘；

that we matter;

比如，我们才是重要的，

that you don't.

而你们不是。

For thousands of years, these stories were called

几千年来，这些故事被称作

divine right.

“神权说”。

Today, we have trickle-down economics.

今天，我们将它称作涓流经济。

How obviously, transparently self-serving

显而易见，

all of this is.

这一切的说辞都是自私自利。

We plutocrats need to see

我们富豪应该意识到，

that the United States of America made us,

是美国塑造了我们，

not the other way around;

而不是我们塑造了美国；

that a thriving middle class is the source

富足的中产阶级是

of prosperity in capitalist economies,

资本主义经济繁荣的源泉，

not a consequence of it.

而不是经济繁荣的结果。

And we should never forget

而且，我们永远都不应忘记，

that even the best of us in the worst of circumstances

即便我们再优秀，若经济环境恶劣，

are barefoot by the side of a dirt road selling fruit.

我们会光着脚在肮脏的路边卖水果。

Fellow plutocrats, I think it may be time for us

富豪伙伴们，我想是我们

to recommit to our country,

回馈社会的时候了，

to commit to a new kind of capitalism

应致力于新型的资本主义，

which is both more inclusive and more effective,

这种资本主义海纳百川，且更为有效，

a capitalism that will ensure

是一种会保证

that America's economy remains

美国经济依旧是

the most dynamic and prosperous in the world.

世界上最具活力、最繁荣的经济，

Let's secure the future for ourselves,

让我们为我们自己

our children and their children.

和子孙后代营造未来。

Or alternatively, we could do nothing,

或者，我们也可以无所作为，

hide in our gated communities

藏匿于封闭的社区

and private schools,

和私立学校，

enjoy our planes and yachts

在私人飞机和游艇里寻欢作乐

— they're fun —

——是很有趣——

and wait for the pitchforks.

并等待干草叉袭来。

Thank you.

谢谢。

(Applause)

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