This is a piss-poor comparison, the worst example anyone could think of to use here but here I go as usual sharing it in public!

There are naysayers all the time I hear saying that earning from crypto faucets aren't even worth the time it takes to type an address in the omnibar. This saddens me because it's usually in response to some newbie who's asking Are faucets a viable way to earn an income? and people just straight up tell them it's useless and to not even give it a second thought. It already irks me when people who are being looked at to provide information try to misdirect someone's ideas/thoughts in a way which could make them not even try to pursue it, solely based on the negative experience the responded had.. Little do they know their bad experience was due to their impatience and lack of motivation.

I won't say faucets will pay the bills or that one could trade daily faucet grinding for a full time job, but I will say that faucets can be a very substantial way of earning crypto (totally free crypto by the way, every satoshi being a profit). Starting out with 0.00000000 and watching it increase by 28 sat a day can be de-motivating though, and the first 14 days become the crucial make or break point, but after those first weeks you get to slowly see the accumulation build up and then that starts to fuel you with motivation! Before you know it, you're selling $70 worth of BTC on paxful and placing real-money bets in an online casino using crypto!

_{Then you start to supplement that free faucet coins with various other methods of free earning (blogging, games, bounties, tips etc) and before you know it your foot is in the door and you're starting to build your tent up in the corners of the cryptosphere!}

_{Never investing any fiat in your crypto collection I think gives some a slightly different outlook on it's value too.. and my goal was always to earn crypto to pad my entertainment fund - now I am able to have a lot of fun that I could never have before due to being completely broke on the fiat front!}

But I went way off topic here.. but my point was many people jump into things too quickly and don't have the rational to see that they aren't the type of person that can pull it off. Everyone thinks they are motivated, nobody thinks they are really looking to get rich quick and think they have the patience to pursue their dreams.. but you're right, 97.5% of people need to wake the truck up and realise they are their biggest hurdle in life.