do you consider what you gamble an expense or investment?

[mamesso]

Both are very opposite and have very big differences, expenses are money that you spend without any possibility of withdrawing it in the future, while investment is a symbol that can provide great benefits for you in the future. So the money you use to gamble cannot be considered an investment because there is no guarantee that the amount will increase after you finish playing.
I prefer to think of it as money to buy pleasure and the rest of the money is allocated to buying assets that can grow in value in the future.

[tread93]

Let me ask you something, I’d like to know how you treat the money you use for gambling. Do you consider it an expense or an investment? These two should be approached very differently. Just like in business, expenses don’t generate income, while investments are meant to grow. What do you think? Please explain your answer as well.

I would consider it a risky investment because let's face it every investment you make involves a certain amount of risk and you could always stand to lose your investment by some means, the same applies to gambling. You have chance. You have a chance investment to make some amount of money. Just like in business.

[Samlucky O]

Let me ask you something, I’d like to know how you treat the money you use for gambling. Do you consider it an expense or an investment? These two should be approached very differently. Just like in business, expenses don’t generate income, while investments are meant to grow. What do you think? Please explain your answer as well.

just consider gambling fund as an amount that we can afford to lose, and this means that as we gamble with it, we consider it as win or lose. this means it may or may not come back after we may have used it. any fund use for gambling should not be considered as investment  because investment is what we put our fund and hope for something in return. although most times after investing we lose, but the lost can not be compered to gambling loses. the chances of lose in gambling is %98 while win is %2 but in investment, the chances of lose is %10 while gain is %90.

[HelliumZ]

Both are very opposite and have very big differences, expenses are money that you spend without any possibility of withdrawing it in the future, while investment is a symbol that can provide great benefits for you in the future. So the money you use to gamble cannot be considered an investment because there is no guarantee that the amount will increase after you finish playing.
I prefer to think of it as money to buy pleasure and the rest of the money is allocated to buying assets that can grow in value in the future.

Right you are, Spending is mainly done to get something or simply out of love or feelings of affection. For example, parents spend physical effort or money for their children's education mainly out of their feelings, which means that when the children grow up, they may or may not stay with their parents. This is mainly spent out of their feelings or sense of responsibility. But investment must only include two things: profit or loss.

[madnessteat]

Both are very opposite and have very big differences, expenses are money that you spend without any possibility of withdrawing it in the future, while investment is a symbol that can provide great benefits for you in the future. So the money you use to gamble cannot be considered an investment because there is no guarantee that the amount will increase after you finish playing.
I prefer to think of it as money to buy pleasure and the rest of the money is allocated to buying assets that can grow in value in the future.

Investments can also bring losses, but with the right strategy and risk management, the chances of making money are much higher than the chances of losing money. In addition, the investor has a wider range of tools at hand to minimize losses and does not depend on time frames. Gambling is a game of luck. You can win big or lose every last cent. Gambling can be considered as an investment only if you own a casino or a betting shop, in the extreme case the owner of tokens, which allow you to receive part of the profits of the gambling platform.

[slapper]

It’s an expense. Full stop. If you think it’s an investment, you’re setting yourself up for delusion. Every serious analysis of gambling (behavioral economics, game theory, finance) ends at the same wall: negative expected value. You lose more than you win by design. The house doesn’t “maybe” win. The house always wins

Calling it an investment is like calling lottery tickets “a retirement plan”. But calling it an expense also hides the emotional truth - people aren’t paying to gamble, they’re paying for hope, for uncertainty, for stimulation. Not everyone goes to the casino for money; they go for the heartbeat spike, the dream of the “maybe,” the break from monotony

If you want to gamble, gamble. Freedom matters. But dress it up as investment? That’s intellectual laziness. At least call it what it is - an experience you’re paying for - not a strategy to grow capital

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Some people see gambling as source of income and based on that believe, they actually see gambling to be an investment and not an expenses. I have said this before and am saying it again, If I calculate all the money I have lost in gambling, it will be far more than the money I have ever won and because of that, I can not see gambling as an investment. Investment is when you expect some profit with a better assurance and not put your hope on luck and uncertainty.

Unlike other expenses, gambling could bring unexpected returns. I see gambling as entertainment, but it wouldn't stop me from expecting returns each time I place a beg. I don't think anybody is gambling because he wants to spend. The reason why most people gamble is to enjoy themselves and also make more money if they are lucky. Those who see gambling as an investment will soon find out that they are making a big mistake. There is no guarantee of profits while gambling; hence, it shouldn't be seen as a source of income.

I am happy to hear you say this, especially when you said the expense brings unexpected return, meaning it could bring you a profit, good one or a lose, bad one. But hope you are aware that there are some expense that brings you expected return always? No? First, expenses could be to disburse money to your needs right, so when we spend money on food, does it not nourish our body and give us strength always, at least it's a beneficial expenses that always give expected returns, unlike gambling 🤣. Despite that I take gambling as entertainment, I also expect the winning but  my expenses on gambling is always the least thing on my budget list.

[DaNNy001]

Let me ask you something, I’d like to know how you treat the money you use for gambling. Do you consider it an expense or an investment? These two should be approached very differently. Just like in business, expenses don’t generate income, while investments are meant to grow. What do you think? Please explain your answer as well.

Well in some cases i think we can consider it as investment since it can generate income most times, because we get profited from gambling most times. And there are some people out there who became rich through gambling. Not that they take it as thier source of income. I'm talking about those set of people that win millions in gambling and most of them was wish enough to use the profit to invest into something that can profit them both now and as well in the future, But to be realistic gambling is not an investment since luck play all the role.

People who consider it an investment always out themselves I precarious situations...no matter how promising a bet may seem it's never an investment, even if you end up winning a bet it's not an investment because anything would have gone wrong...I remember placing a a bet of 100k on a team to win and the game almost ended as a draw but In the final minute in second half they ended scoring, just because I won that bet didn't really mean I made money from an investment, it's just a bet that I got lucky from Because I know that I would have lost as well.

[yahoo62278]

Let me ask you something, I’d like to know how you treat the money you use for gambling. Do you consider it an expense or an investment? These two should be approached very differently. Just like in business, expenses don’t generate income, while investments are meant to grow. What do you think? Please explain your answer as well.

Why wouldn't you consider as an entertainment expense? You go to the casino to have some fun, drink a few drinks, and socialize. You don't go there thinking you are going to win millions, you hope to but not the case for 99.9% of gamblers.

I think an investment really is talking to those that do trading which IMO is also gambling. I have no clue what I am doing when it comes to that so if I were to try without educating myself I would just be lighting money on fire.

[Ziskinberg]

Why wouldn't you consider as an entertainment expense? You go to the casino to have some fun, drink a few drinks, and socialize. You don't go there thinking you are going to win millions, you hope to but not the case for 99.9% of gamblers.

In a physical casino, gambling can be considered entertainment. But when it comes to online gambling which most of us here engage in, it’s probably only a little bit of entertainment or more realistically, an expense.

Either way, the majority of us still lose in the long run. So, the way we think about gambling is often different from the actual results. We might see it as an investment, but if we keep losing, then it’s clearly just an expense.

I think an investment really is talking to those that do trading which IMO is also gambling. I have no clue what I am doing when it comes to that so if I were to try without educating myself I would just be lighting money on fire.

Somehow, I believe gambling could be considered an investment but only for gamblers who truly have the skills to be consistently profitable.
Of course, this doesn’t include affiliate marketing, as that’s a different game altogether.

[Z390]

Gambling is a form of entertainment, buying and holding an asset is investment, they are both different, you can never treat gambling as an investment because it is a game of luck, there is nothing like reaping from what you sow, in short don't bother sowing anything, just enjoy the game and have some fun.
The problem of gambling starts when you want to handle gambling like an investment, you start throwing every penny you made into gambling and at the end of it all you won't have anything to show for.
Enjoy your gambling, risk small amount of money but don't play around with investment, you can never fail in life if you follow this path, be more serious with investment and have fun with gambling.

[Promocodeudo]

Let me ask you something, I’d like to know how you treat the money you use for gambling. Do you consider it an expense or an investment? These two should be approached very differently. Just like in business, expenses don’t generate income, while investments are meant to grow. What do you think? Please explain your answer as well.

Though am that kind of person that never believed that gqmbling is an entertainment but at a time I read through some stuffs hear and traced the origin of gambling too I now understand that gambling was solely created for entertainment purposes and that's why some gamblers gamble with the amount that won't be a burden to them if they eventually lose, so for me I understand that gambling is not an investment and I can't treat it or refer it as one because I understand what an investment is, gambling doesn't have an assured end or will I say gambling it doesn't have a certain end so if i say gambling is an investment it is a total misunderstanding or misconception on my own side about gambling, I will rather say gambling is an entertainment but it all depends how individual gamblers approach it, if you gamble with the amount you can't let go para venture if anything happens and you feel disturbed or regret then that houldn't be seen as an entertainment because I feel if you're entertaining yourself it should be with something that doesn't cause you a regret later, though this is my answer and what I think about your question.

[radjie]

Let me ask you something, I’d like to know how you treat the money you use for gambling. Do you consider it an expense or an investment? These two should be approached very differently. Just like in business, expenses don’t generate income, while investments are meant to grow. What do you think? Please explain your answer as well.

I don't think that the gambling I've been doing is an investment, because the gambling I do is just to find pleasure by using the extra money that I've set aside. If it is said to be an expense, of course there must be a budget required for gambling, but I only gamble when I really feel like gambling and it is not required every day.

[danherbias07]

Both are very opposite and have very big differences, expenses are money that you spend without any possibility of withdrawing it in the future, while investment is a symbol that can provide great benefits for you in the future. So the money you use to gamble cannot be considered an investment because there is no guarantee that the amount will increase after you finish playing.
I prefer to think of it as money to buy pleasure and the rest of the money is allocated to buying assets that can grow in value in the future.

To buy pleasure. Yeah, that might be the best definition of it. I also don't think of it as an investment, it's just money that will be spent, nothing more. Plus, there's a higher percentage of losing when it comes to gambling, so we should not expect anything back. It's way different than how it is with investments, where we are monitoring it almost every day to see if our money has increased or not. We don't do that in gambling, especially in casino games. We just press that roll button and let the algorithm decide what's in it for us. It's like opening pandora's box.

[Vaskiy]

Gambling will be given different forms. People who doesn't care of money and have made sufficient money find it as entertainment. These people doesn't spend time into gambling, maybe while partying or while participating in a get together or in some special occasions they gamble. Most of the people who suffer are the middle class people who doesn't have sufficient money to reach the next level of life. They try hard and prioritize gambling as a form of investment in which luck has its role. The outcome will be loss and not profit.

Gambling is just a fun factor in which we need to be very calculative and should have control, if not the outcome will be make the gambler suffer financially as well as mentally.

[bangjoe]

Both are very opposite and have very big differences, expenses are money that you spend without any possibility of withdrawing it in the future, while investment is a symbol that can provide great benefits for you in the future. So the money you use to gamble cannot be considered an investment because there is no guarantee that the amount will increase after you finish playing.
I prefer to think of it as money to buy pleasure and the rest of the money is allocated to buying assets that can grow in value in the future.

To buy pleasure. Yeah, that might be the best definition of it. I also don't think of it as an investment, it's just money that will be spent, nothing more. Plus, there's a higher percentage of losing when it comes to gambling, so we should not expect anything back. It's way different than how it is with investments, where we are monitoring it almost every day to see if our money has increased or not. We don't do that in gambling, especially in casino games. We just press that roll button and let the algorithm decide what's in it for us. It's like opening pandora's box.

I don't know how they think why gambling expenses are used as a place to invest, in a mention of gambling alone is very inconsistent with the principles of gambling, because basically gambling and investment are different.

Buying pleasure makes more sense than that sentence as a thread, a wrong definition will raise inappropriate questions and marrying an object with an object that can't even be interpreted with proper grammar will cause confusion such as the sentence gambling is a form of investment. LOL

[bitterguy28]

I would consider it a risky investment because let's face it every investment you make involves a certain amount of risk and you could always stand to lose your investment by some means, the same applies to gambling. You have chance. You have a chance investment to make some amount of money. Just like in business.

businesses at least try to manage these risks by setting up a plan that could allow them to minimize risks and make the most out of their profits

a lot of the gamblers do not think of gambling like that they often just play and hope for the best but most of them do not really have much strategy going on since there is no strategy to win anyway like with slots for example there is no winning unless you are lucky

[Yucky]

No one should see the money they are using to gamble as an investment fund. It should be seen as money that you want to use to have fun. Just like you can go out with friends during weekends and spend little amount of money. That is how you should see the money you are using to gamble. It will also let you know that it should be a very small amount of money which you can afford to lose.

Exactly, this is how I address gambling play for fun, It's just like some people who spend money on weekends to go to the cinema. You don't expect to get the money back because you use it to relax.

Similarly, if you gamble for fun, as a way to flex your intellect or get an adrenaline boost, you can't see it as an investment. Instead, view it as a way of spending money on yourself. But if you gamble for profit and are sure you have games that you know how they work, and you get returns from them regardless of how little, then maybe you can see it as a minimal investment. But majorly, I see it as fun. That's why I gamble with a budget that doesn't dip into my major finances.

[gunhell16]

Let me ask you something, I’d like to know how you treat the money you use for gambling. Do you consider it an expense or an investment? These two should be approached very differently. Just like in business, expenses don’t generate income, while investments are meant to grow. What do you think? Please explain your answer as well.

just consider gambling fund as an amount that we can afford to lose, and this means that as we gamble with it, we consider it as win or lose. this means it may or may not come back after we may have used it. any fund use for gambling should not be considered as investment  because investment is what we put our fund and hope for something in return. although most times after investing we lose, but the lost can not be compered to gambling loses. the chances of lose in gambling is %98 while win is %2 but in investment, the chances of lose is %10 while gain is %90.

Even though gambling can never be considered an investment, in reality, can it be considered an investment that is only based on luck, since gambling in any type of casino always depends on luck and bad luck, if you lose, it usually happens all the time.

Maybe for others it may be an investment, and that's something you won't understand how they can say it when that's how they view their gambling addiction most of the time.
Because right, when you have a gambling addiction, of course they don't see their gambling as an investment.

[Frankolala]

Both are very opposite and have very big differences, expenses are money that you spend without any possibility of withdrawing it in the future, while investment is a symbol that can provide great benefits for you in the future. So the money you use to gamble cannot be considered an investment because there is no guarantee that the amount will increase after you finish playing.
I prefer to think of it as money to buy pleasure and the rest of the money is allocated to buying assets that can grow in value in the future.

To buy pleasure. Yeah, that might be the best definition of it. I also don't think of it as an investment, it's just money that will be spent, nothing more. Plus, there's a higher percentage of losing when it comes to gambling, so we should not expect anything back. It's way different than how it is with investments, where we are monitoring it almost every day to see if our money has increased or not. We don't do that in gambling, especially in casino games. We just press that roll button and let the algorithm decide what's in it for us. It's like opening pandora's box.

Casinos are the ones investing with gamblers losses because they have already set up an investment to bring profits for them overtime. A gambler is only enriching the casino with the little he can contribute to the casino's financial growth. The gambler will lose more than what he has won in the long run. Will you call something that you put your money into, and cannot get it back an investment?.