不过，他们购买的保险金额往往较为随意——对一些人来说，一百万美元的保险金额似乎很多，但如果他们年收入15万美元的话，那一百万美元都不抵七年收入。

But they often buy it arbitrarily — $1 million sounds like a lot to some people, but if they earn $150, 000 a year, that is less than seven years of income.

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的确从这种微细随意的劳动分工可以令我们大家做出牺牲，而让一些人获益——前提是这种事只发生在他们身上。

It is true that a few persons can profit at the expense of the rest of us from this minute arbitrary subdivision of labor - provided it happens in their case alone.

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