When one has had to work so hard to get money, why should he impose on himself the further hardship of trying to save it?

已经是为了赚钱而不得不如此辛苦地工作，为什么还要把极力省钱这种更苦的事强加给自己呢？

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Paradoxically trying to save time, he poured himself into writing a program to summarize content in an easily digestible preview.

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I'm the young man who doesn't understand why his father was running up the stairs as the building fell, trying to save just one more person, instead of saving himself.

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