LTC back in the day/ ethereum was a great way to have some wealth, at the very least some retirement money
Of course large corps takes advantage of anything that makes money, thats how capitalism works unfortunately. If you have millions to throw at something, which you see a potential 3x return then you would do it, which is what China did
The average person can't afford to risk a thousand dollars
Also maybe if investment was taught in school, or tax system in general was taught , instead of the silly things we get in the uk then more power to the masses
Finally I'd like to point out that outside China, which exploits energy from the citizens, bitcoin farms are generally in the North like Iceland or Greenland I think it was, where renewable energy was used as it was more efficient investor or something
And I think in Iran, thousands of solar panels for mining
It's just a shame the average person with gpus can't get their chunk of the btc prize , but thats where ltc came in, then monero with more focus on privacy, then ethereum ... so ..