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Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand · 初版 2001 年
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回顾了 Seabiscuit 的历程：这匹腿型弯曲、尾巴短小的赛马在1938年创造了赛马史上的奇迹，这多亏了一位驯马师、马主和骑师的共同努力，他们将一匹底层的赛马塑造成了传奇。
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Seabiscuit
Laura Hillenbrand · 初版 2001 年
回顾了 Seabiscuit 的历程：这匹腿型弯曲、尾巴短小的赛马在1938年创造了赛马史上的奇迹，这多亏了一位驯马师、马主和骑师的共同努力，他们将一匹底层的赛马塑造成了传奇。
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……Homer Hickam 写的《Rocket Boys》）——大量的煤矿工伤、死亡和慢性病（黑肺病）。利益相关方明明清楚黑肺病的成因，却重利轻命。——赛马（参见 Laura Hillenbrand 写的《Seabiscuit》）——骑师大量伤亡（更别提骑师们承受的不得不催吐暴食以及其他不健康行为的压力了）。骑师自杀率奇高。利益相关方……
…Rocket Boys" by Homer Hickam) - tons of coal mining injury, death, and chronic illness (black lung). Stakeholders were aware of the causes of black lung but put profit over people. - horse racing (read: "Seabiscuit" by Laura Hillenbrand) - tons of jockey injury and death (not to mention the pressure jockeys were under to engage in bulimia and other unhealthy practices). Super high jockey suicide rates. Stakeholders…
……这篇文章里未经验证的观察（谁又能呢？），但要是你以为这种事在许多体育运动中还没有成为上百年来的常规操作……那你是没读过 Laura Hillenbrand 写的《Seabiscuit》。我不知道 HN 上有没有骑师在看，如果有的话，他们现在肯定在打哈欠。以前他们一直都这么干。要是现在不这么干了我反倒觉得稀奇。我认为这种事情简直糟糕透顶……
…unconfirmed observations in this article (can anyone?) but if you think that this sort of thing hasn't been standard technique in many sports for a century and more... you haven't read Laura Hillenbrand's Seabiscuit. I don't know if any jockeys read HN, but if they do, they are yawning right now. They used to do this all the time. I would be amazed if they don't still do it. I think this sort of thing is a terrible…
如果你读 20 世纪初的书（《Radium Girls》、《Rocket Boys》、《Seabiscuit》），就会痛苦地明显看到，如果没有像工会这样的东西来制衡企业贪婪、保护工人福祉，行业会变得多么令人难以置信地剥削（简直是把人工作到死）。……
If you read books from the early 1900s (Radium Girls, Rocket Boys, Seabiscuit), it's painfully obvious to see how incredibly exploitative industries can become (literally working people to death) without something like a union to check corporate greed against worker well-being.…