Aren't all investments "betting on an outcome"? Betting the stock will be worth more, betting my house will be worth more, betting my car will maintain more of

Aren't all investments "betting on an outcome"? Betting the stock will be worth more, betting my house will be worth more, betting my car will maintain more of its value versus a different model or betting its better to buy now against the outcome of inflation? Even a date is betting my time that the outcome will be me getting along with stranger.