It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

  • -- Upton Sinclair 厄普顿辛克莱

当一个人的薪水取决于他对某件事的不了解时,要使他了解这件事是很困难的。

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The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

世界正在遭受买主短缺之苦,这是很容易理解的,这不是因为人们不希望拥有货物,而是因为人们不愿意放弃可以赚取固定收入的东西来换取这些货物。

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

我确实认为有时人们在不了解情况的情况下变得道德高尚。