i think Bitcoin is only profitable if done at large scales. you must get expensive mining equipment and of course it consumes a lot of electricity monthly. Also its usually much more cost effective to buy Bitcoins with this money instead of using it to buy mining equipment.
Every people have different perspective about mining or buying bitcoin. Both have advantages and disandvantages. For me, I am better buying bitcoin in market because i dont have good equipment to mining bitcoin and anyone have their own reason why they mining or buying