财富观的变革与财富的创造

Changes in the outlook on wealth and the creation of wealth

本文分析了人们既盼富又仇富的矛盾心态，并从财富观的演变中澄清人们对财富的模糊认识，进而揭示财富一方面体现在人的智力和创造性上，另一方面体现在人类个体的社会合作能力上的本质特征。指出只有在法制化的市场体系中才有可能使人的致富手段具有正当性，因为这会形成一个能力和创造力竞赛的充满活力的社会，这才是真正的财富增长。同时，法制化的市场体系的有效运作还必须得到优秀的文化道德资源的支撑。

This paper makes an analysis of the contradictory mentality of both longing for wealth and harboring hatred against wealth, and attempts to clarify some hazy understranding of wealth in course of the evolution of outlook on wealth, then goes on to reveal that the nature of wealth is the embodiment of intelligence and creativity on the one hand, and the embodiment of ability in social cooperation on the other hand. Only a legalized market system can enable the properness and legitimacy of any means of getting rich, becausc this will form a dynamic society in which ability and creativity are allowed to compete, and this is the growth of wealth in the true sense of the term. The paper also points out that the effective operation of a legalized market system necessitates the support from excellent culture and sethics.