was that you develop incentives to make people work really hard.

就是通过奖励来鼓励工人努力工作
The simplest case was Henry Ford's $5 a day salary,

最简单的案例就是亨利·福特
which was way above market prices,

高于市场的五美金日薪
but allowed him to be very choosy about his workers,

但他对工人相当挑剔
to demand very intense labor,

他需要高效率的劳动力
and to demand that they allow him to inspect their lives.

并要求工人允许他视察他们的生活
He had what he called sociologists

他有自己的社会学家
who went around to people's houses looking for alcohol

到工人的住所搜查酒精饮料
or devices for gambling and so on

或者赌博设备等等
but intensity of labor is another variable

但劳动强度是另一个
that needs to be thought of.

要考虑的变量
Now I just made that story sound really sensible, I think,

我想我刚才已把故事说得相当易懂