If you buy MSFT specifically you'll get regular, fairly predictable dividend payments and not just an unknown amount of money in the future.
MSFT goes up a tiny fraction when you buy. That means MSFT employees with stock grants get a tiny "raise" courtesy of you and with no cost to the company. Microsoft can also use their more expensive stock to make acquisitions. So you are contributing to the company's productive use in at least 2 ways if you buy its stock.
Buying MSFT doesn't meet the criteria to be called gambling, for me.
I've noticed that I have far more conversations with strangers when I'm out walking my dog than when I'm out by myself. I've also made acquaintances with the regulars at the dog park. Pets aren't a replacement for human interaction, but they can help facilitate it.
If you have to write a comment to explain every definition, you've failed to make the code sufficiently readable and simple to understand IMHO. Code-level comments can become outdated without eagle-eyed code-reviewers. The code itself can never lie.
Comments are a useful for explaining the implementation logic of a function or method, for instance. Or for generating API documentation. And file-level comments explaining the purpose of the class or module are always handy.
MSFT goes up a tiny fraction when you buy. That means MSFT employees with stock grants get a tiny "raise" courtesy of you and with no cost to the company. Microsoft can also use their more expensive stock to make acquisitions. So you are contributing to the company's productive use in at least 2 ways if you buy its stock.
Buying MSFT doesn't meet the criteria to be called gambling, for me.