here: how do u understand the word"marginal" and" profitable"?
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Today we coexist with intrigue. We refer to the experience of our own perception that records the manifestations of a scenario of shocks, continually changing and fleeting, in increasingly rapid transformation, in which apparently stable realities yield to new unknown realities: sudden slippages between the marginal and the profitable, the valued and the alternative, the peaceful and the conflictive, the conflictive and the paradisiacal: the artificial - strange - and the “strangely natural.”

here: how do u understand the word"marginal and profitable"? would u like to explain it with examples? for it is a bit difficult for me to understand what the author is about to talk of...

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here: how do u understand the word"marginal" and" profitable"?
context:
Today we coexist with intrigue. We refer to the experience of our own perception that records the manifestations of a scenario of shocks, continually changing and fleeting, in increasingly rapid transformation, in which apparently stable realities yield to new unknown realities: sudden slippages between the marginal and the profitable, the valued and the alternative, the peaceful and the conflictive, the conflictive and the paradisiacal: the artificial - strange - and the “strangely natural.”


here: how do u understand the word"marginal and profitable"? would u like to explain it with examples? for it is a bit difficult for me to understand what the author is about to talk of...

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profitable; making money. example is "a profitable business.", so the business makes lots of money

marginal; making money, making profit, but only little profit. so "a profitable business" spends 500 dollars, earns 510 dollars so has made 'marginal' profit

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