闲来无事我一直琢磨一个严肃的问题,人类进步的动因到底是什么?动因者,指发自于内而不是发自于外的因素。经典的解释是劳动创造了文明,问题是劳动如何创造文明呢?我想,有一个重要的因素就是人与人之间有意识或无意识的“比较”。就以原始人为例,围着个屁兜满山乱跑,日出而作日落而息,自然而然在劳作中进行比较,这个山的野兽比那座山多,或者,这个季节的植物比那个季节丰富等等,随文明进步,比较也 Nothing else I’ve been pondering a serious question, what is the motivation for human progress? Motivation refers to the factors that come from within rather than from the outside. The classic explanation is that labor has created civilization. The question is how labor can create civilization? One important factor that I think is that there is a conscious or unconscious “comparison” between people. Take primitive people as an example, running around with a fart around the mountain and making sunset as the sun goes down. Naturally compared in work, the beast in this mountain is more mountainous than that mountain, or the plants in this season are richer than those in that season Rich, etc., with the progress of civilization, more also