A man who wants to succeed is often less than 1/10000 of what he has paid. But for these 1/10000, they can gamble everything, fight like a gambler and the God of fate, or even gamble on their lives.
Do they gamble on cooperation (high payoff) or defection (low, but sure payoff)?
In Japan, the acquisition is a gamble on the continued growth of medical insurance as the population ages, even as other Western firms strengthen their foothold there.
We must allow plenty of time to get to the railway station-we can' t gamble on the road being clear.