I'll give you $500 and week to either buy an ASIC or a GPU. Tell me which one you stand a chance of obtaining. GPUs are not ASICs. GPUs have a low barrier of entry. Sure you are trounced by the farmers but that is the free market. If you can grow your GPU farm from 1 to many by being better than the existing farms you win in the free market. ASICs have blocked the road for the average user. You need $20k and a prayer or an established GPU farm that will get you next to nothing in BTC. Bitcoin needs an upgrade.
I wasn't complaining about asic or big gpu farm. I mean a coin with no innovation is easy to kill, a good example is FTC last time I checked next difficulty retarget was 20 days... with block each 16 minute. It seem like a temporary or constant failure for a coin supposed to be as fast as litecoin and it was not done by few big gpu farm but by the mass of gpu miner.