“it’s like going to the roulette tables in Vegas. The odds are not in your favor.’
Actually investing is nothing like gambling. If you invest it and leave it alone for forty years the odds are you will make a LOT of money.
Our money was in the stock market for 40 years while we were working and investing. And in less than a month we lost half of it.
We had already retired and didn't not have any way to make up our loss of principal.
We're both in our 70s. We don't have another 40 years left to play the game again.
And I call BS on your claim that investing is not the same as gambling.
Whether you lose your money in the stock market or whatever "investment" you want to pick, or you lose your money playing poker, you still lose your money. The outcome can be the same.