I actually don't think it's gambling, tbh. There's an interesting discussion to be had about truly free markets, for sure. However, the modern stock market is

I actually don't think it's gambling, tbh. There's an interesting discussion to be had about truly free markets, for sure. However, the modern stock market is neither fair nor random. It's not accessible to you or I in the same way that it is to financial institutions. Front-running and dark pools are accepted as normal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP74RBTE8kI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP74RBTE8kI I would also suggest that Warren Buffett does not see the stock market as random or gambling. When he buys a company, it comes after huge amounts of research. A good stock trader obsessively researches the companies that they invest in. While it might not be anything like a guarantee of success, I sure hope you have better than Vegas odds when investing in a company that you've learned everything you can learn about without becoming an employee.