OP you couldn't be more wrong. People were getting 20k usd a pop when Raiblocks( now known as Nano) did their distribution. Many fair projects out there had fair distribution models, just because you got suckered into bad projects doesn't mean there aren't free coins out there that gain value down the line.

People literally made millions of dollars in a single day if they held their nano from the distribution.

I still remember when Bitcoin faucets were handing out 5 bitcoin a day for free. The key is you have to be early in a coin. Also a lot of coins had free sign ups that gave you a ton of coins and if you held it was an easy 50k usd + like xrp and nem.