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Todd: So Greg, we're talking about controversial issues and one of the issues in your book isincome disparity. So, what do you think about minimum wage?
托德：格雷格，我们来谈谈备受争议的问题，你书中提到的其中一个问题是收入差距。你怎么看最低工资?
Greg: Minimum wage. Minimum wage I think is very important to have otherwise employersare going to take advantage of people; pay them too little. The society, society itself mustdecide what is the proper minimum wage and that in itself is an issue. What should it be?
格雷格：最低工资。我认为制定最低工资标准非常重要，否则雇主就会占雇员的便宜;支付雇员过少的薪水。社会必须决定适当的最低工资标准，这是社会问题。应该怎么做?
Todd: You know, actually I disagree. I am actually against a minimum wage. I think that youknow, basically all markets find equilibrium and that the wage goes too low people just won'tdo the job, and so basically, if you don't have a minimum wage eventually the society willcome to a wage where people fell comfortable doing that work. That basically things will workout.
托德：我并不同意你的观点。我反对制定最低工资。我认为所有市场都在寻找平衡，如果工资太低，那人们就不会去做那份工作，基本上来说，如果没有最低工资标准，那最终工资会达到人们满意的水平。基本上来说事情会顺利解决的。
Greg: In theory maybe you're right, but in reality you're really wrong. I mean take a look atsome of these countries around the world where there are sweat shops, where you havechildren, cause there are no rules regulating labor, and you have children who have never beeneducated, spend their entire lives working almost like slaves in unhealthy conditions. That'swhat happens when there are no rules to protect workers.
格雷格：从理论上说，你是对的，不过实际上，你的想法是错的。看看世界上那些有血汗工厂、雇童工的国家，因为这些国家没有规范劳动力的规定，一些孩子从来没有接受过教育，他们一直像奴隶一样在不健康的环境下工作。因为没有保护工人的规定，情况就会演变成这样。
Todd: But I think that's somewhat true but you said the key word that they're not educated. Ithink the problem there is that people aren't educated and that's what leads the abjectpoverty that they might do a job like that. So don't you think that if people were educatedmore, they would not be willing to work such meaningless jobs, such jobs that pay so little.
托德：从某种程度上来说可能是这样，不过你刚才的关键词是没有受过教育。我认为问题是这些人没有接受过教育，这是导致赤贫境地的原因，因为这样他们才会去做那种工作。你不认为如果人们受教育程度更高，他们是不会愿意去做那种没有意义、工资那么少的工作的。
Greg: Many of those people, those children, who are working like slaves, don't have a chance foran education and often maybe they're being exploited, not always but sometimes, by peoplewho've had good education.
格雷格：这些人、这些儿童中的很多人，他们像奴隶一样工作是因为他们没有机会接受教育，虽然不是通常情况，不过一般来说剥削他们的是受过良好教育的人。
Todd: Right.
托德：对。
Greg: Take a child in some very poor country has to work just to find food.
格雷格：一些极度贫穷国家的孩子只有工作，才有吃的东西。
Todd: So basically, you're saying they should have a living wage. That they should makeenough money that they can have a decent standard of living.
托德：你的意思是他们应该有生活保障。他们要挣足够的钱，这样他们才能维持像样的生活标准。
Greg: Everybody should have a decent standard of living I believe.
格雷格：我认为所有人都应该有像样的生活标准。
Todd: I just think that it's really hard to arbitrarily set a price. I mean that number is alwaysgoing to go up and down. That even a minimum wage is somewhat skews the reality that ifyou just let markets take their natural course eventually people won't be willing to work.
托德：我只是觉得很难去随意设定价格水平。因为价格经常上下波动。甚至最低工资可能会扭曲现实，如果让市场顺其自然地发展，那最终人们就不愿意去工作了。
Greg: It doesn't work that way because when you just have a complete free market, you havecorrupt people who take advantage of other people.
格雷格：事态不会这么发展，因为当自由市场完备时，会有腐败的人去利用其他人。
Todd: Well, you know, that actually I do agree with but I think ... I do believe in a free marketsbut one thing that is true is that free markets cannot work where's there's corruption. I doagree with that. So we agree about something.
托德：我同意这个观点，我相信自由市场，不过我认为如果存在腐败，那自由市场就无法运作。我同意这个观点。我们终于达成一致观点了。
Greg: Yes. Good thing.
格雷格：对。这是好事。
英语情景对话口语练习2Todd: So Greg in the last one we were talking about minimum wage, and this is one of thetopics in your book and it's about income disparity. One of the chapters is about incomedisparity. Now the opposite would be should there the a salary cap, which would mean thatbasically you could only earn so much, like let's say you can only earn five million dollars, tenmillion dollars. Nobody could earn more than that. What do you think about that concept?
托德：格雷格，上期我们谈论了最低工资，你书中提到的一个问题是收入差距。你书中有一章专门讲述了收入差距。今天我们要谈的是相反的话题，应该设定工资上限吗?工资上限是指限定人们只能挣这么多钱，假设说只能挣500万美元或1000万美元。没有人的工资能超过这个限定。你怎么看这个概念?
Greg: I personally agree with a salary cap. I'm not sure how much it should be, but definitelythe discrepancy in wages is way to great. There's too many people who have to ... a husbandand a wife work hard forty hours or more, both of them. They're barely, barely getting by, andthen you got all these other people who are just buying Rolls-Royce cars and Mercedes, andcountry clubs and it's just not fair.
格雷格：我个人同意设定工资上限。我不能确定限额应该设定多少，但是我认为工资差异这一问题太严重了。有许多人……有的家庭夫妻两人可能都要工作40个小时以上。这样他们还只是勉强糊口而已，可是也有人能买得起劳斯莱斯和奔驰，去乡村俱乐部享乐，这太不公平了。
Todd: But, well, for one, though I mean, Mercedes and Rolls-Royce and those are products thatprovide jobs, so I would argue with that. Actually, as you can probably tell, I'm against theidea mainly because, you know, I think that hurts innovation. You know, you look at peoplelike the CEO of a very powerful internet company or software company, and you know, takegoogle for example, I'm sure that they make more than ten million, but they're service is usedso much around the world, that they should get that money, and if people couldn't ... hang on... if people couldn't get ... couldn't earn that salary then maybe they wouldn't have the samemotivation and drive to be successful and that people would lose out as a result.
托德：首先，奔驰和劳斯莱斯是产品，这些产品会提供工作岗位，所以对这个问题持不同看法。实际上，我并不同意这个观点，因为我认为工资上限会损害创新性。你看，像强大的互联网公司或软件公司的首席执行官，比如谷歌公司吧，我确定他们的工资超过1000万美元，可是全世界都在使用他们的服务，他们应该得到这笔工资，如果他们不能……等一下，让我说完，如果他们不能挣到这么多钱，那他们可能不会这么有动力，不会成功，他们最终可能会失败。
Greg: I think that there's not proof to say that these people are making these products becausethey're making such tremendous amounts of money. What came first: the product and thenthey got the money in most cases. There's ... these people could be ... society can have allsorts of wonderful products and still have a fair income system, and I have nothing againstpeople becoming rich or making a good salary, a very good salary, but not such an incrediblegap. You have executives of some major international corporations that are making more moneythan millions of people in the world make combined. The opposite side of not having a cap isthat you have people who are making too little, and those people are also working hard. Thosepeople deserve validation. Those people deserve a good life standard which millions of peopleacross the world are not having.
格雷格：我认为没有证据表明因为他们挣的钱很多，就说明是他们制造了这些产品。想一下，是先有的产品还是他们大部分情况下先挣到了钱。这些人……这个社会既可以有各种出色的产品，也可以有公平的工资体系，我并不反对人们变得富有，也不反对他们有不错的收入，我反对的是如此大的工资差距。主要互联网公司执行官的工资比世界上数百万人的工资总合还要多。没有工资上限就会造成有的人工作非常努力，可是挣得特别少。而这些人值得获得认可。这些人值得拥有好的生活标准，可是世界上数百万人都享受不到这种生活标准。
Todd: Well, I think ... well, I agree with you about that. I agree with you about that. Thatthere's people who work hard and that they're under compensated, but ... and they're a lot ofpeople that get grossly overpaid but I think that's just a problem of management and that insome cases so people do deserve millions and millions, perhaps billions of dollars if they havereally contributed to the product or the outcome. So, basically we're gonna disagree on thisone.
托德：我认为……这方面我同意你的观点。我同意你的看法。有些人工作努力，可是挣的很少，也有很多人收入过高，不过我认为这只是管理问题，在某些情况下，如果有人对产品或成果的贡献很大，那他们就值得获得数百万美元甚至数十亿美元的收入。所以基本上来说，我们两人在这个问题上持不同看法。
Greg: Yeah.
格雷格：对。
英语情景对话口语练习
