嫉妒经济 / Envy Economy


「释义」
当嫉妒成为社会常态,会对经济产生极大的腐蚀与破坏作用。嫉妒将人的视线局限于对他人的负面攻击上,而非集中于关注自身的优势和发展。
在“嫉妒经济”中,人们生活在一个“零和游戏”中,有人成功就意味着有人失败。
「应用场景」
最近,美国似乎开始出现从梦想时代退化到嫉妒时代的趋势。不管是99%的人去嫉妒1%的人,还是53%的人去嫉妒47%拥有政府补贴的人,这个数字已不再重要,因为我们对他人优势的关注已经重于自身。这是我们应该警觉的迹象。如果任由这种嫉妒之风蔓延,它将对我们的经济产生极大的腐蚀与破坏作用。它削弱了人的能动性,将成功变为一种被动的外力而非内在的驱动。它将人的视线局限于对他人的负面攻击上,而非集中于关注自身的优势和发展。在“梦想经济”中,人们欣然看到他人的进步,因为这意味着有一天他们也可以做到这点。但是在“嫉妒经济”中,情形恰恰相反,人们生活在一个“零和游戏”中,有人成功就意味着有人失败。
Lately there are signs that America is shifting from an orientation of ambition toward one of envy. Whether it is the 99% who envy the 1% or the 53% who resent the 47% who are receiving government distributions, we are beginning to show signs of focusing more on others than on ourselves. That’s a shift we want to avoid. Over time envy has a corrosive, pernicious effect on an economy. It reduces agency and encourages people to attribute outcomes to forces beyond their control. It shifts people’s gaze toward others in a negative way and takes their focus off their own goals. In an ambition economy, people generally enjoy watching others get ahead, because it reinforces their sense that they, too, can succeed. In an envy economy, in contrast, people often feel like they’re playing in a zero-sum game and that if someone else gets ahead, it comes at their own expense.
《“嫉妒经济”取代“梦想经济”?》
尼廷·诺里亚
2013年1月刊
“Envy and the American Dream”
by Nitin Nohria
编辑:马冰仑