The defenses had to do with necessity, their dire circumstance, and, implicitly at least, the idea that numbers matter.

有人说他们在那样的处境下，不得已而为之，并且暗含了“人数重要“的理念。

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.. The problem is again the ideal-- they're trying to work toward what I think of an ideal that we see in finance-- 1 mainly, the perfect correlation of consumption and the elimination of risk--we all help each other.

问题又回到了理想-,他们为之奋斗的这种理想状态,如果用金融学的理念来解读-,就是消费与风险消除的相关系数为,即完全正相关，所有人都互助互利。

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