You're right, that's a moot point: it all boils down to unnecessarily, unreasonably transferring wealth from later adopters to earlier supporters (left holding the bag) in what amounts to very unsophisticated "investing" - whereby buying a stock of a company or say gold is buying for something very specific, contextualized, with annual reports and laws in place to attempt to lead to integrity within those organizations; not an apple to apple comparison that people consistently try to make.