Soldato
Mining makes money, which is useful and productive. Gaming is simply kids wasting their time and money away, while producing nothing.
Might as well complain about investment bankers using computers, when gamers could be making use of them instead!
Ever heard of 'fun'? Wasting time having fun? WHat you got your PC for? Oddly people find benchmarking 'fun'.
Mining doesnt produce anything other than something that exists only digitally that people swap for real money. So it doesnt produce money, it produces something that criminals have preferred that doesn't make up p[art of the FIAT money system and others have decided to invest in it further. The fact that crypto mining is designed to take forever more processing and electricity to produce a 'coin' is basically a pyramid scheme. In early make the most. I think the criminality side of crypto currency also gives it value too. It's just a shame it takes so much energy from calculation to produce something that only exists in a digital form. I see your arguement though.