On the other hand, I remember the price of BTC of only $200 and the possibility to collect the same in just a few months of using the faucet (1-2 hours a day max) with a note that back then faucets were much easier without short links and similar nonsense that they are full of today.
I can see you are on this forum since 2015 which indicates you involved in crypto from a long time and you are my senior here too. You must have make good entries in BTC while it was of $200 only. I mean really, you could make that much BTC in just faucets. I tried my luck with faucets and every other free sites where i could earn in BTC back in 2018 but all i earnt is less than what i wasted on internet + time.
When you say that some profit and others lose money, you can conclude that the majority's loss is the minority's gain. It doesn't seem ethical to make a profit in such a way that you have to mislead someone else into investing money in something that you already know in advance will fail - but I mean in general that whole industry that actually sells a bunch of false promises and always targets the poorest who just want to make money no matter what.
I know its not ethical to earn money that way and i should not promote such fake projects but i was a newbie too and was learning and slowly slowly i came to know which project is making fake promises and which is not (it doesn't mean i was right always about a project legitimacy). I mostly worked for some old managers which mostly comes up with good projects and out of those platform only few didn't fulfilled to complete there promises. (note* i am not talking about getting paid from mangers i am talking about those projects which unable to fulfill there promises that they made to investors.)