Your comment does not address the (imho reasonable) criticism that the described system incentivizes gambling as the key to wealth, rather than labor.
There are many problems with a gambling based economy, not least among them that over a long enough time line, all the money ends in very few hands.
I don’t view long-term investing in productive companies as anything close to gambling.
> a long enough time line, all the money ends in very few hands.
You're assuming the economy is zero sum, which it obviously is not.