We didn't make a profit; at the end of each month we were able to pay rent, our vendors and our bills at work and at home, but that was it.

我们也没有利润；到每个月月底我们仅能支付房租、供应商货款和账单，这样工作和生活，但就是这样。

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Since that takes about nine months, many of the owners even rent out their old house in the interim, pocketing a profit.

这个过程大致需要9个月，所以很多房东都会在这期间把房子租出去赚点钱。

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This is the heart of the transformation process — the conversion of surplus value into profit, interest, and rent.

这是转型过程的核心——剩余价值转化为利润、利息、地租。

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Do your homework - some estancias are just private homes that begrudgingly rent rooms for profit, others are campy circuses that bring in buses of camera-snapping tourists - but do not miss a chance to live out your cowboy dreams in the Argentine pampas.

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Now imagine the first pirate who arms his boat with cannons and rent-seeks the profit.

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Its profit is what's left of this rent after its property managers, janitors, lighting companies, debt collectors and local property tax collectors take their cut.

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