Because that’s the word we know for that?
Words can have more than one meaning, you know. I’m sure that in a perfect logic-based language (created by advanced AI civilizations from space, let’s say) that sort of semantic overlap might be considered unacceptably imprecise and messy to be usable, but English ain’t it.
Got any suggestions for a better way of referring to success in skill-independent acts of gambling, betting and assorted risk-taking? Now I’m curious about how that might look like.
