If you can't hold your job down, you can't get the money Ultimately, most of the negative things on that list were instrumentally bad.

无法工作就赚不到钱,最终名单上多数消极的东西,都归结为坏的利用价值。

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Because the situation is so powerful, why just emphasize the negative?

因为情境如此强大，为什么只强调消极的东西？

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But if life would no longer have anything good to offer you, if what you then would have had would have been something negative instead of something positive, then at that point, dying wouldn't actually be a bad thing.

但是当生命再也不能向你提供美好，届时我们面对的是,消极的而非积极的东西，那时死亡可能不是一件坏事。

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