????你知道我們說的是什么。有一群人他們曾經非常認真地對待研究，閑暇時抗議一下社會公平。畢業后他們找到了工作，準備大干一場。一切都很好，直到10-15年后，他們聽說（在他們看來）大學里不務正業、尋歡作樂的“小人物”已經在華爾街發了財。而且，還沒有把這個世界變得更好。只不過是小人得勢，沆瀣一氣罷了。

????好吧，也許這些足以讓人痛恨企業。但其實并不應該。首先，即便華爾街是影視節目中的典型企業形象，更多的企業卻是由消費和制造公司組成，他們生產和銷售真實的商品，是家族企業，初創企業，農場和街角的商店等等，不一而足。企業就是每天美國運轉的基石。

????其次，同樣重要的是，不應該污蔑企業，這是讓一個國家走向繁榮的唯一道路。每個人都知道經濟必須得到改善，但經濟只能在鼓勵企業、甚至關愛企業的環境中得到改進。整體氛圍很重要。一旦敵意盛行，大企業會擔心監管問題，大多數公司會都會更加嚴格地控制資本支出、人員招聘和其他。企業家們會擔心現在可能不是擴張的時機。

????看，如果你想要工作（其實誰不想要呢？），就必須接受現實。仇視企業傷害的不僅僅是企業。

????它還會斷了我們每個人面前的路。

????譯者：早稻米

????You know what we mean. You have a group of people who once took their studies very seriously and protested for social justice in their free time. After graduation, they took jobs where they felt they could fight the good fight. That was all well and good until 10 or 15 years out, when they started hearing stories about the obnoxious loudmouths who majored in playing the angles and minored in beer pong. These "lightweights" (in their view) had struck it rich on Wall Street. And not by making the world a better place. No -- simply by showing up and chumming around.

????Okay, so maybe that is enough to make you hate business. Except you shouldn't. First of all, even if Wall Street shows up in movies and on TV as the archetype, far more of U.S. business comprises consumer and manufacturing companies making and selling real stuff, family-run enterprises, startups, farms, corner stores -- you name it. American business is what America does every day.

????But just as important, you shouldn't vilify American business, since it's our only road back to a thriving country. Everyone knows that our economy must improve, but it can improve only in an environment that encourages business -- and, yes, even loves it. Atmosphere matters. When hostility reigns, big enterprises worry about the regulations coming down the pike, and most hunker down on the capital-spending front, human and otherwise. Entrepreneurs worry it's not the right time to expand.

????Look, if you want jobs -- and who doesn't? -- you have to come to terms with reality. Hating business doesn't just hurt business.

????It destroys the way forward for everyone.