簡單翻譯：
工會透過限制工作機會的方式幫成員獲取更高的工資，其代價是非工會成員的就業機會減少。政府幫公務員加薪，其代價由納稅人負擔。但如果工人的收入增加或工作條件改善是透過自由市場--也就是雇主為聘僱更好的工人而彼此競爭，同樣地工人為了更好的工作而彼此競爭-- 其收入之增加並未以任何人為犧牲代價。因為此工資成長是來自於生產力增加、資本投入增加、高廣度多重技能的增加。也就是整張餅做大了 -- 可分給工人的餅變多了，同時可分給雇主、投資者、消費者乃至於稅金也都一起變多了。
這正是自由市場系統分配經濟成長果實給所有人民的方式。這也正是過去二個世紀以來，勞動階層生活條件大幅改善的祕密！
米爾頓.傅利曼 "選擇的自由" 第八章
"When unions get higher wages for their members by restricting entry into an occupation, those higher wages are at the expense of other workers who find their opportunities reduced. When government pays its employees higher wages, those higher wages are at the expense of the taxpayer. But when workers get higher wages and better working conditions through the free market, when they get raises by firms competing with one another for the best workers, by workers competing with one another for the best jobs, those higher wages are at nobody's expense. They can only come from higher productivity, greater capital investment, more widely diffused skills. The whole pie is bigger—there's more for the worker, but there's also more for the employer, the investor, the consumer, and even the tax collector.
That's the way a free market system distributes the fruits of economic progress among all the people. That's the secret of the enormous improvement in the conditions of the working person over the past two centuries." ~ Milton Friedman Ch.8 of "Free to Choose"
