Not really, this is about creation. When you turn a tree into a house you create value. The losers in this game either fall to vandals, or create something that isn't valuable.
When you gamble money there are winners and losers. When you create something that creates wealth.
> When you turn a tree into a house you create value.
Of course, because the tree has no value, right? As long as you call things you don't care about "externalities" you can trivially prove anything is a positive-sum game.
This framing assumes that the tree has more value as a part of the house than it did as a tree. Every act of wealth creation is simultaneously an act of wealth destruction. Whether it is a positive or negative action is as much a statement of individual values as it is an objective, universal fact.
When you gamble money there are winners and losers. When you create something that creates wealth.