I agree, the definition or the option between the two depends on the person itself.
You can choose when you already dealing with it and gaining compensations, the main factor is to earn and grow your investment
whatever the process, you take as long as you are getting a good result. That's the goal when participating in any type of investment.
And both of them are processes that we can earn more depending on how we're good are we with any or both of them.
Investors are gaining passively and the investment is maturing but requires a lot of time. I prefer this than to trade. I may suck in trading but in my experience, investing is more profitable.
Whilst the others, they're making their best deals of their life through trading and hopefully someday, we can be like them.