来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：资本主义：成功、危机与改革 第2集 第2集》

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  and Karl Marx who we're going to study in a week.
  我们下周会讲到的卡尔·马克斯
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  The contribution of Ricardo to Malthus was that Ricardo had
  李嘉图对马尔萨斯理论的贡献在于
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  devised what he called "The iron law of real wages."
  李嘉图阐释了"工资铁律"
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  The gist of that was that no matter what the technology,
  该定律的要义是无论技术如何进步
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  no matter what the demographics,
  无论人口状况如何
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  the inflation adjusted wages paid to unskilled labor
  通胀过后支付给无技术工人的工资
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  would always tend toward
  往往一直都处于
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  the bottom of the scale we've been looking at,
  我们看到的工资规模底层
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  would always tend toward the level of mere survival,
  将永远停留在仅满足温饱需要的水平
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  or subsistence as they say.
  或如他们所说 满足生存需要
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  In the back of Malthus' thinking is both Ricardo's iron law
  马尔萨斯的思想源于李嘉图的工资铁律
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  and the empirics of 200 years of stagnate wages,
  和二百年来停滞不变的工资经验数据