50.Is scale the antidote to everything

50.Is scale the antidote to everything?

You say, what should we do in the face of difficult problems? Standard posture, of course, is to find a solution. you 're right. Recently, however, I have become more and more aware that solutions and problems to be solved are often not on the same plane. For example, in the face of this pneumonia epidemic, there are very few solutions available in urban countries like Singapore, while in China, there are many more.

When they chat privately in the circle of economists, they often say that "scale is the antidote to everything.". Yes, no matter how big the economic problems are, once there is a market scale, the problems can often be solved.

Even during the French Revolution, the left and the right could not solve the problem by repeatedly fighting and debating. When everyone was bored, Napoleon came out. If it seemed that they could not solve the problem, Napoleon would blow it away.

Therefore, most of the time, there is no ingenious way to solve the problem. Big strength, large scale and great ability are the solutions.

规模是一切的解药吗？

你说啊，面对难题我们该怎么办呢？标准的姿势，当然是找解决方案。没错。但是，最近我越来越意识到，解决方案和待解决的难题，往往并不在同一个平面上。比如，同样是面对这次肺炎的疫情，像新加坡这样的城市国家，能用的解决方案就非常少，而中国呢，就多得多。

他们经济学家圈子里面私下聊天，经常会说到一句话，叫“规模是一切的解药”。对呀，经济上的问题再大，一旦有了市场规模，问题往往都能解决。

就是法国大革命期间，左派右派，反复争夺，反复论战，也解决不了问题，等大家打烦的时候呢，拿破仑就出来了嘛，貌似解决不了的烦恼，人家拿破仑一炮就轰掉了。

所以，解决问题，大部分时候都没有什么巧妙的办法，力气大，规模大，本领大，就是办法。

重点词汇

of course 当然，自然 ; 当然 ; 当然不

more and more 越来越

For example 例如;比如

in the face of 面对

there are 有 ; 可数名词的复数形式 ; 许多重要事情要谈

very few 极少数的；非常少 ; 屈指可数

no matter how 不管怎样

there is 有

market scale 市称