Is adding liquidity to the lightning network akin to being a gold miner?

Ie you’re adding critical infrastructure that improves the underlieing asset and creating a yield?

Or perhaps it’s more like a commercial bank, adding liquidity to the base layer money?

I think I prefer the 2nd analogy
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