And if I'm the tax collector, the way I make a profit is by charging you a lot more than I need just to send to Rome.

如果我是税吏，就会收你们一大笔钱,远多于需要上缴的数目，以赚取利润。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Therefore, you will produce enough profit to make it possible, so that these small farms, you should imagine as typically having one or two slaves playing a part in this experience.

因此,需要创造足够的利润,才能使每个只有,一两个奴隶的小农场,能够在那段时间得以维系下去

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You can't think that it really could make so much difference in the real world how prices and quantitie and welfare, and profit is going to work out depending on some thought experiment about how I think about my strategy set.

你们很难想象在现实世界里,价格 产量 福利和利润会因为,不同策略集合设定下的思想实验,而产生如此巨大的变化

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