仇视企业要不得

    你知道我们说的是什么。有一群人他们曾经非常认真地对待研究，闲暇时抗议一下社会公平。毕业后他们找到了工作，准备大干一场。一切都很好，直到10-15年后，他们听说（在他们看来）大学里不务正业、寻欢作乐的“小人物”已经在华尔街发了财。而且，还没有把这个世界变得更好。只不过是小人得势，沆瀣一气罢了。

    好吧，也许这些足以让人痛恨企业。但其实并不应该。首先，即便华尔街是影视节目中的典型企业形象，更多的企业却是由消费和制造公司组成，他们生产和销售真实的商品，是家族企业，初创企业，农场和街角的商店等等，不一而足。企业就是每天美国运转的基石。

    其次，同样重要的是，不应该污蔑企业，这是让一个国家走向繁荣的唯一道路。每个人都知道经济必须得到改善，但经济只能在鼓励企业、甚至关爱企业的环境中得到改进。整体氛围很重要。一旦敌意盛行，大企业会担心监管问题，大多数公司会都会更加严格地控制资本支出、人员招聘和其他。企业家们会担心现在可能不是扩张的时机。

    看，如果你想要工作（其实谁不想要呢？），就必须接受现实。仇视企业伤害的不仅仅是企业。

    它还会断了我们每个人面前的路。

    译者：早稻米

    You know what we mean. You have a group of people who once took their studies very seriously and protested for social justice in their free time. After graduation, they took jobs where they felt they could fight the good fight. That was all well and good until 10 or 15 years out, when they started hearing stories about the obnoxious loudmouths who majored in playing the angles and minored in beer pong. These "lightweights" (in their view) had struck it rich on Wall Street. And not by making the world a better place. No -- simply by showing up and chumming around.

    Okay, so maybe that is enough to make you hate business. Except you shouldn't. First of all, even if Wall Street shows up in movies and on TV as the archetype, far more of U.S. business comprises consumer and manufacturing companies making and selling real stuff, family-run enterprises, startups, farms, corner stores -- you name it. American business is what America does every day.

    But just as important, you shouldn't vilify American business, since it's our only road back to a thriving country. Everyone knows that our economy must improve, but it can improve only in an environment that encourages business -- and, yes, even loves it. Atmosphere matters. When hostility reigns, big enterprises worry about the regulations coming down the pike, and most hunker down on the capital-spending front, human and otherwise. Entrepreneurs worry it's not the right time to expand.

    Look, if you want jobs -- and who doesn't? -- you have to come to terms with reality. Hating business doesn't just hurt business.

    It destroys the way forward for everyone.