And indeed, there are those marginal producers who manage somehow to hang on year after year. A few even thrive.

确实，这些边际劳动力成功地年复一年的生存者，而且变得更繁荣。

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First, even a small, poor, post-Soviet state in demographic decline can survive, indeed thrive, in a de-facto currency union with mighty Germany.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne