Not comparable in that regard imho. Investing in crypto is made available to anyone with an app on their phone. Everyone knows that building a business is not an easy way of becoming millionaire. Crypto bullshit is made and presented to people as exactly that : an easy way of becoming millionaire, and in reality, it is an easy way of losing everything you invest, because it's mostly a pyramid scheme.

The point was that crypto investments or whatever share with gambling the fact that they're made appealing to a large number of people, used to lure in people who want to become millionaires (or are made to believe that), and are extremely dangerous, because realistically if you don't exactly know what you're doing (and even then, to be honest), it is way more probable you're gonna lose everything than having a positive result. They are both a trap to steal poor people's money.

The way they are presented to us in ads, or false corpo conferences from bullshit entrepreneurs, shares the same idea of "you can become a millionaire right now, yes, you, specifically" that is the very reason of being of gambling or sports bets and whatever.

gambling is not really a way of making money, it's a way of losing it