Is there a hard threshold? Do high risk investments such as penny stocks qualify as gambling? Do low risk investments? Annuities? Bonds? CDs?

This comment got me wondering.

Is it more to do with the venue? Stock markets and real estate vs casinos and the lottery?

Were the MIT Blackjack Team gambling or investing?

Or Jerry and Marge Selbee?

Is this just another semantic hotdogs are sandwiches discussion or is there an agreed threshold?

  • Moneo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you’re talking about stock picking, hard disagree. Emotion has nothing to do with it whether or not it’s gambling.

    If picking stocks was anything but a gamble portfolio managers wouldn’t have such a god awful track record.