I agree that both investment and gambling have the risk of losing money, but I think they are two very different things and cannot be equated.
Gambling and investment are two different things with a little bit of similarities, they both involve risk-taking but the level of risks taken in both are very distinct: investment involves research, analysis, skills, planning, consistency and professional planning. Gambling on the other hand mainly involves undetermined factors and luck tho it might also require knowledge and skill.
So even though both have risks, their essence and purpose are different. Equating them can be misleading, especially for those who are just starting to understand the world of finance.
Essence and purpose of gambling is primarily driven by hope of winning while the essence of investment at the other hand is the allocation of resources with the expectations of gaining profit over time.
Gambling is a short-term kind of scheme for gaining profit or losses while investment requires time to gradually produce profit meaning investment requires patience before it pays.
Yes, there is one thing that we cannot equate between gambling and investment because clearly both are different things. Gambling has a greater risk of loss, therefore always be careful in gambling, make sure that we only gamble with the amount of money we are prepared to lose, because in gambling there is no guarantee of winning unlike investment which can still be tried to get profit.
And the stupid thing that I often find, people prefer to spend their money on gambling rather than investing, they really can't be patient to be able to get profit from the amount of money they deposit, even though the profit from investment is more real than from gambling.