The game of hazard which he plays is furnished with many zeros,” which represent “the increment [by which] the world’s wealth has fallen short of...savings,” owing to “the losses of those whose courage and initiative have not been supplemented by exceptional skill or unusual good fortune.
El juego de azar que practica está plagado de ceros”; es decir que “el crecimiento de la riqueza mundial [es] menor que [los] ahorros”, lo cual se debe a “las pérdidas de aquellos cuyo valor e iniciativa no se han completado con habilidad excepcional o desusada buena fortuna.