Is gambling also referred as investment?

[JoyceBTC]

Have a colleague at work place who keeps saying that gambling is also investment that in gambling whatever amount you use to gamble can actually yield back the results, he emphasize on that if you are gambling you should do the best to use a better amount to place your bet so that if you win then you gonna have good pay out.

Did your friend ever think of when you use a bigger amount, and you lose out everything? Gambling is just a game of luck, despite there are some people who use it as a source of income but it can never be compared to investment. Your friend has a very wrong impression about investment, gambling is not investment and investment is not gambling.

[Webutxo]

Gambling is not an investment and should never be regarded as one. The pattern at which gambling operates is very different from how an investment works. You can’t invest into something that your expected ROI is based on 50/50 and your risk are so high that you can’t contain them when the losses come. Gambling is more better putting into the category of side hustle, rather than it being called another means of income. Gambling is a game of luck, and for that reason that you can’t learn from past losses in gambling, it is not befitting to be called an investment properly.

The way we ask some questions makes me think that it's either we know what we are doing and just questions because we want to ask or we don't care to learn. The money some people have loss on gambling this year alone, if they use that amount of money to make investment into some altcoins, they may not have gotten the profit they want but they may still have half of their capital remaining but I don't think 1/3 of the capital will remain if it's gambling.

You know what's dangerous about gambling, you can claim to know how to gamble but after many trials you will understand that gambling is the worst place to try as investment. There is nothing you can fall back to when it comes to gambling, you either risk it and lose it or you lose everything. That's how gambling is but but if you do futures with leverage trading, I will say you are also gambler, that's worst than trading sometimes.

[ChocolateBitcoinK]

Have a colleague at work place who keeps saying that gambling is also investment that in gambling whatever amount you use to gamble can actually yield back the results, he emphasize on that if you are gambling you should do the best to use a better amount to place your bet so that if you win then you gonna have good pay out.

Did your friend ever think of when you use a bigger amount, and you lose out everything? Gambling is just a game of luck, despite there are some people who use it as a source of income but it can never be compared to investment. Your friend has a very wrong impression about investment, gambling is not investment and investment is not gambling.

Yes, there are many people who make gambling an investment, they have the mentality that they are making an investment and from here they will definitely make a profit, they have the mentality of making a sure profit. In gambling, the results mainly depend on luck, where in the long run most of the participants face losses. On the other hand, the basis of investment is research, risk assessment, patience and long-term planning.

But if a person does not understand these things, then I think that he does not have any real knowledge. If someone enters the market with the hope of quick profits, makes decisions without research or buys on emotion, then I believe that his behavior is completely like gambling. If we want to achieve something good in a business or an investment, first we have to research it thoroughly, consider the risks, Because no one can achieve success with 100% surety. So it is clear that an investment can be a gamble if we manage that investment completely unrealistically, but a gamble can never be an investment, no matter how well we do it.

[Finestream]

Gambling can only turn as an investment if you are owning a casino business and you invest all your efforts and hard-earned money into it, that's investment. You will yield an income even tenfold of your capital if that casino successfully operates for long term.

However, if you are just a sole gambler who's continuously trying to take an edge over the house, which is certainly impossible, then you cannot say that what you are doing is an investment. You will lose and even mess up with your bankroll if you gamble irresponsibly, so definitely that's not how an investment works. An investment will guarantee a future income, gambling will only guarantee losses.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

But on the contrary, if you uses same amount to gamble when you lose it there is no way to get it back and there is no possibility of winning, in fact the chances are 50/50 base.

Gambling and investing are two different things that should not be confused for another, an investor can be gambling when he does not understand the asset he's investing into. There are lots of investors that what they are doing are gambling instead of researching and understanding what they are getting theirself into and that is why this set of people are quick to sell when they encounter any difficulty in the market. The real ones that took their time to do their research understands how the market operates so they won't be scared when they see things happening that they have already studied about.

Investing gives you an opportunity to hold on to your asset until it regains it's value but gambling doesn't give you such privileges, if you lose in gambling you have lost everything.

Gambling gives you an opportunity to make fast money but that isn't how investing operates, investing teaches you to appreciate your money more since it will take you some time to acquire it and this makes it impossible for you to lose it all from being careless as you will have gained experience through your hodling days.

[Decimetre]

But on the contrary, if you uses same amount to gamble when you lose it there is no way to get it back and there is no possibility of winning, in fact the chances are 50/50 base.

Gambling and investing are two different things that should not be confused for another, an investor can be gambling when he does not understand the asset he's investing into. There are lots of investors that what they are doing are gambling instead of researching and understanding what they are getting theirself into and that is why this set of people are quick to sell when they encounter any difficulty in the market. The real ones that took their time to do their research understands how the market operates so they won't be scared when they see things happening that they have already studied about.

Investing gives you an opportunity to hold on to your asset until it regains it's value but gambling doesn't give you such privileges, if you lose in gambling you have lost everything.

Gambling gives you an opportunity to make fast money but that isn't how investing operates, investing teaches you to appreciate your money more since it will take you some time to acquire it and this makes it impossible for you to lose it all from being careless as you will have gained experience through your hodling days.

You're very correct sir. Investment is different from gambling because investment focuses on what an asset can offer in the future while gambling focuses on the immediate greed of the gambler. The gambler can go all in even when he knows that he has a 50-50 chances of loosing his money because he thinks that if he eventually wins, he will be the rich guy but investors don't go that way. They invest gradually because they believe that they're saving for the future and needs not to rush about it.

Gambling  is a game of luck while investment is more like a game of trust. You trust what you have understood and you invest because you trust the process. Gambling has higher chances of ruining a gambler's wealth whereas investment builds wealth. Gambling is addictive while investment is professional and more realistic and controllable.

[TheUltraElite]

The only investment in gambling is if you are investing in the casino bankroll.

Playing on the casino means you are exposing yourself to the risk of losing money and I dont consider this as investment. In investments you have some asset in hand at the end of the starting transaction, like a stock/share/stablecoin/altcoin/fiat. In gambling you dont have that, you have put the money in the machine and its gone already, unless your luck is good and you get it back with something extra.

Games of luck cannot be considered investment in my opinion, however certain people might want to stretch it a lot.

[Rockson1]

Have a colleague at work place who keeps saying that gambling is also investment that in gambling whatever amount you use to gamble can actually yield back the results, he emphasize on that if you are gambling you should do the best to use a better amount to place your bet so that if you win then you gonna have good pay out.

Your colleague got somethings wrong and I'm glad that you were not misled by his theory, gambling is not an investment and it can never be, I think he is far from understanding what gambling is, gambling is more of a game of luck which means gamblers should not gamble and hope that they must win, anyone who understands what luck is will not advice anyone to gamble with huge amount because it is possible that you may not win and what happens after a gambler has gambled with big funds and end up losing it, of course regret will set in right, perhaps because the gambler refused to stake within an appropriate budget, your colleague did not thought of losing at all when he said bet with a reasonable amount to win a higher amount when luck shines.

[Obulis]

Even if just a simple no gambling is not the same investing, that answers it all!

In as much as both requires capital inputs and risk, investment depends basically on value creation and long term expectancy relying on economic advantages or growth
Gambling is more of luck oriented where there's little or no chance even with your analysis and the chances of profit is way too slim for the gamblers as history may have. In gambling the gambling companies are more favoured than the gamblers.
Now to think of it, in Bitcoin trading that has been referred to as gambling is it not obvious that trading don't favor the traders all the time compared to Bitcoin investment that has all the attribute of investment as other investment?

[Antotena]

The only investment in gambling is if you are investing in the casino bankroll.

Playing on the casino means you are exposing yourself to the risk of losing money and I dont consider this as investment. In investments you have some asset in hand at the end of the starting transaction, like a stock/share/stablecoin/altcoin/fiat. In gambling you dont have that, you have put the money in the machine and its gone already, unless your luck is good and you get it back with something extra.

Games of luck cannot be considered investment in my opinion, however certain people might want to stretch it a lot.

I don't know the level of casino branding but gambling is gambling and can never be considered as investment. The only thing I can consider to be an investment as gambling is if you buy casino token. For example, Rollbit casino has a token, the coin had it moment firing 2024 but now they are done. If there are people that invested on them before that time went higher, then that's the best gambling investment I think they have done for their self.

Any Bankroll that is deposited into the casino is not an investment, they are stake waiting to be used because any money you stake or bet on casino sport and games, there is no chance of recovery. Some casino may allow you to make some recovery or cashout that same bet if it's has not been played but once the event you bet on started, you are not getting that money back again, which is not an investment.