In my own opinion, gambling is always playing with luck and do take note that luck is always against you in order for the casino to make money. On the other hand, you will have the control over the outcome of your investment so you can improve your chances of winning if you do enough research. So i will choose invest over gamble.
Investment will always be a better option with gambling. I don't know why they are people who are preferring to choose gambling rather than investing and their reason are almost the same and they keeps on saying that it can give them fast money which is literally not a good way of earning. Unlike with investing, slowly but surely.
Hold on. So let's say the owner of Google offered you the 10% of their company for an affordable price, you wouldn't take it because "fast money is literally not a good way of earning"? AFAIK, you should pick an investment or a job that can give you the most money the quickest. I'm talking about earning fast money in general here. It might not be the perfect example but you get the gist.
Not all investments are "slowly but surely". There are investments that are giving you good returns right from the start. For example, you can get $100 worth of gift certificate for, let's say, $20. You can sell that gift certificate for $70-$80 range. That's 350% to 400% return. What if it's a starbucks gift certificate, then you'll surely get good amount of profits since people would always be buying from you.