否则，在他看来，现今的人民总会是被当作未来人民的人质，放弃自己的消费，使未来的人们更加富裕。

Otherwise, he argues, the present will always be held hostage to the future, forgoing its own consumption to further enrich all the generations to come.

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但是那些宣布目标的人们平均工作大约33分钟后就放弃了，当被问及时，他们感到快要接近目标了。

But those who had announced it quit after only 33 minutes, on average, and when asked afterwards, said that they felt much closer to achieving their goal.

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