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尾款人!你与冷静消费之间,只差一个培根的距离!

外研国际 外研人文 2022-09-13

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尾款人

白天打工人,晚上尾款人



各位“尾款人”:


你们好!想必大家又刚刚结束了“搬砖”的一天,是不是真切的体会到了一句话——花钱一时爽,挣钱XXX?李佳琦熬夜赚钱白天补觉,你熬夜花钱白天打工……(心疼3秒钟)


“打工人”这种生物一旦到了双十一,万物皆想拥有,万物皆是刚需。没人能阻止一个“打工人”睡觉,但李佳琦的可以,薇娅可以,带货网红直播都可以!听说21号凌晨的直播间就好像过年一样,又是倒数又是敲锣,就差放炮了。听说1号凌晨的淘宝购物车就好像数学题一样,又是尾款又是满减,就差函数了!

预付立减

付定金打X折

疯狂抢X元劵

抢XXX减XXX

满XXXX减XXX

付定金不止X折

定金XXX抵XXX元

前XXX名半价、XXX元


看到这一幕,我真不知道自己是来买东西的,还是来参加奥数比赛的,有实际需求的网友不得不做起了笔记。没错,这是当年上学考试才做的事!


经历了研究规则→直播→熬夜→定金→尾款,恭喜你,已经成功升级成了四大皆空!


不要慌,不要慌,你还有救!!!关于消费,英国文艺复兴时期的一位散文家、哲学家,有话想对你说……


坐坐坐,关于消费

我们得好好聊聊


培根《谈消费》

  • 被人诟病你爱买买买?

  • 被人吐槽你爱乱花钱?

  • 被人嫌弃你冲动消费?


来,跟着培根学消费!


这款培根,不是用来满足你的口腹之欲,而是为了填满你的思想饥渴!


他就是警句生产大师——弗朗西斯·培根!


Knowledge is power.——Francis Bacon

知识就是力量。——弗朗西斯·培根


看我智慧的小眼神






谈消费


有钱是为了花钱,而花钱应当考虑荣誉和善行。鉴于此,大笔花销须以其用途之价值大小为度,须知为了祖国和为了天国都有人甘愿破产;而日常花销则应以个人的财产多少为度,须考虑量入为出,勿受仆人欺瞒,并尽可能安排得体面些,使实际花销低于外人的估计。毫无疑问,若一个人只想保持收支平衡,那他的日常花销应是他收入的一半;而如果他想变得富有,其日常花销则应是收入的三分之一。大人物问及并清查自己的财产不会有失身份。有人避免此举并不只是因为疏忽,而是怕发现自己破产而平添忧愁;但身体若有创伤而不检查,那就谈不上将其治愈。不清点自己财产者须用人得当,并且应该经常辞旧雇新,因新雇家仆多畏怯而少奸诈。不常清点自家财产者须对自己的收支做出明确的限定。在某方面花销较大者须在另一方面厉行节约,诸如膳食费用高者在服饰方面节省,而居室耗资巨者须在马厩上减少花费。因处处都大手大脚就难免入不敷出,家道中落。过快地清偿债务和任其拖延太久一样有害,因为急于廉价推销通常和多付货物利息一样都会带来亏损。而且一次清偿债务者容易走借贷之老路,因为他发现自己摆脱困境后很可能故态复萌;但逐渐还清债务者往往会养成节俭的习惯,而这对他的头脑和家业都不无裨益。欲振兴家业者断不可轻视小节,须知减少零星花费通常比屈尊而求小利更为体面。对一旦开始就会持续的长期性支出须慎之又慎,但对一次性消费则不妨慷慨一些。


出自培根《培根经典散文选》




Of Expense


Riches are for spending; and spending for honour and good actions. Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion, for voluntary undoing may be as well for a man’s country as for the kingdom of heaven. But ordinary expense ought to be limited by a man’s estate, and governed with such regard, as it be within his compass, and not subject to deceit and abuse of servants, and ordered to the best show, that the bills may be less than the estimation abroad. Certainly if a man will keep but of even hand, his ordinary expenses ought to be but to the half of his receipts; and if he think to wax rich, but to the third part. It is no baseness for the greatest to descend and look into their own estate. Some forbear it, not upon negligence alone, but doubting to bring themselves into melancholy, in respect they shall find it broken. But wounds cannot be cured without searching. He that cannot look into his own estate at all, had need both choose well those whom he employeth, and change them often; for new are more timorous and less subtle. He that can look into his estate but seldom, it behoveth him to turn all to certainties. A man had need, if he be plentiful in some kind of expense, to be as saving again in some other. As, if he be plentiful in diet, to be saving in apparel; if he be plentiful in the hall, to be saving in the stable; and the like. For he that is plentiful in expenses of all kinds will hardly be preserved from decay. In clearing of a man’s estate, he may as well hurt himself in being too sudden, as in letting it run on too long. For hasty selling is commonly as disadvantageable as interest. Besides, he that clears at once will relapse, for, finding himself out of straits, he will revert to his customs: but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality, and gaineth as well upon his mind as upon his estate. Certainly, who hath a state to repair may not despise small things, and commonly it is less dishonorable to abridge petty charges than to stoop to petty gettings. A man ought warily to begin charges which once begun will continue; but in matters that return not he may be more magnificent.




思想很好吃的培根


购物有风险,下单需谨慎


尾款过后

迷茫+无助+弱小+可怜

还要背负巨额债务

然后开始反思


培根的《谈消费》

写于 400 多年前的英国,

此刻,我们用一个当代“打工人”的眼光

来重新审视培根的观点时,

你认为它过时了吗?

思想很好吃的培根,希望对你有所启发




培根是一个很有哲理性的散文大家。“随笔”(essay)这个名称最初来源于法国的蒙田,但将这种体裁发扬光大的却是培根!


除了《谈消费》,在《培根经典散文选》中,我们可以读到很多睿智见解。换句话说,这就是一本“花式怼人指南”,现实中的“意难平”,你都可以在这本书中得到开导,学会培根的逻辑思维,你将轻松拿捏优雅怼、文艺骂、高级黑的命门!


被七大姑八大姨催婚?用培根的方式谈婚姻与独身:“有妻室儿女者只能听天由命,因妻室儿女乃成就大业之妨碍。”“只要一个人喜欢,他任何时候娶妻都有道理。”


被人鄙视不懂养生?呵,保温杯、泡脚桶、按摩仪不过是小儿科,养生被人忽略的重要一点:“应该让心中怀有憧憬,怀有并非狂喜的愉悦和并不过量的多种情趣,并怀有仰慕和惊叹以及由此产生的新奇感”。


当然,除了关注“眼前的苟且”,我们也需要与一些格调高雅的人不掉价地谈论“诗和远方”。夜深人静独坐观心,始知妄穷而真独露。我们也难免要在“众人皆睡我独醒”的深夜,思索啥是真理,啥是死亡,啥是爱情……凡此种种,培根都有论及。他学识渊博却不说教,风趣幽默却非贫嘴,《培根经典散文选》,智慧bling bling的爽文集锦。



《培根经典散文选》

定价:30.00

物料号:316510001

ISBN:9787521316513





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