Not in decentralization terms, and not in developing Open Source mining hardware/software through grassroots crowd sourced volunteers. Satoshi even predicted as such.

But yes your economic benefit is expected to be negative, like all lottery games - except this one isn't rigged.

Don’t see it like that You make the effort to help the most important thing of our time to save 200$ by skipping some dinners out and 3$ a month in electricity bills by being careful with your lights and then you have free lottery on top of that with some actual chances to win ( 1 in 12k in a year) We should all do it