(05-13-2026, 05:55 PM)BeyondKnowledge Wrote: Investing is just another word for gambling.
I would like to make an argument against this statement as gambling is primarily done for gambling sake and fairly often on pure chance alone. Investing in treasuries, equities, hard assets and bonds involves existing systems usually companies who exist primarily to turn a profit while offering a service or product to the world. This system creates a value people can then buy into and trade with in an open market. The point is there are systems, assets, and business models at play. Targets are set and some work very diligently to meet or exceed said targets and others maybe not as so. Those who meet or exceed targets are frequently rewarded with higher valuations as well as regular quarterly or monthly cash flow. This is all far from
pure chance in the sense of traditional gambling, and why seeing it that way is a defeatist mind set that automatically sets up your way of thinking down the opposite path in a feedback loop. Because gambling in the traditional sense frequently leads to loss over time, developing this mindset will lead to missed opportunities for growth and success.
I am not trying to turn you into an investor at all or even trying to get you to understand the feedback loop from negative association in the presence of ignorance on a topic. All I am saying is, the statement that investing is just another word for gambling is overly misleading.
If I buy 100 scratch offs, 99 times out of a hundred I will not come out with more than I paid. That is gambling in the traditional sense. However, if you take the price of that roll, lets call it $300, and instead put it towards your employer sponsored 401K, you will get a 100% return on everything your company is matching for you. Not only that, it remains there building with your next contribution and growing at whatever rate your risk tolerance allows it to. I prefer a personal brokerage account as well if you want to grow fast, but I digress. Mind you, it still pays dividends which buys more of these same equities. That targeted managed growth,
THAT IS INVESTING. Is it guaranteed? No of course not, neither is you making it home everyday though. But it most certainly is more predictable and thusly more manageable into a wealth accruing system for a regular person who just takes the time to read and study patterns as opposed to rolling some dice, scratching a ticket or playing a set of numbers everyday for decades.
Poly market is a more accurate example of gambling. Our brokerage accounts at Meryl Lynch with a curated list of profit turning companies that we are physically buying into is not the same thing at all.
A couple of the companies listed in that second video that NVDIA contracts with have already jumped like 1000% in the last year, and they were not even penny stocks at the time. That quick money has sailed, but considering the industries they will be profitable for years and years to come regardless of whether or not AI turns into anything. Because the money is being spent on the materials and infrastructure regardless of opinions or analysis. That spending means profits for those companies
PHYSICALLY building things. It means profits for you, the tax paying Investor!
Just remember to pay attention to the management fees. The difference between 0.40% and 0.06% over ten years could easily be thousands in lost potential, tens of thousands depending on your net worth.
