> You buy a $5 movie ticket and most of that money is going to actors, visual effects artists, and all the other names you see on the credits. You buy $5 worth

> You buy a $5 movie ticket and most of that money is going to actors, visual effects artists, and all the other names you see on the credits. You buy $5 worth of bitcoin and you have bought almost $5 worth of electricity. So your defense effectively is if I buy $5 of food and eat it, well it is any lost any way so I should buy $5 of bitcoin instead? I am sorry but it is exactly this kind of flawed reasoning which ensures people don't take bitcoin seriously.