Not unless the faucet user is doing something actually useful other than clicking a virtual button.
Unless you were lucky enough to use faucets a few years ago, and save the bitcoin you made from them, then they are essentially useless. It makes much more economical sense to do a job, get paid in fiat and buy bitcoins with some of the fiat that you earned.
Like I said, randomly clicking buttons is a bots game, Bitcoin can enrich the human race!
(Then again, if you're clever enough to program a bot to earn money from faucets without you doing it yourself, then go for it! I'm not sure if this is possible, I've never tried, but if it is then it would be a nice [if small] form of income).
By faucet he doesn't simply mean Bitcoin Faucets. There are several Altcoin Faucets that are yet to be discovered. They are on the verge of dying because of low traffic so their owners might increase payouts out of panic rush.
Programming a bot to claim Bitcoins from faucets? That's like spending 5000$ on buying a gaming mouse with a Pentium 4 PC. Wasting time on faucets is still more fruitful than wasting time botting(bypassing captcha and setting timer).
There are certain ways Faucets can be helpful though. If one runs a currency exchange along with a blog and a faucet for claiming as you keep surfing. It's like Bitcointalk providing faucet every 10 minutes for staying online and reading through threads.
Yes, but if you're using altcoin faucets then you're just gambling in the hope that the altcoin will gain value in the future - you may as well just buy some of those altcoins and speculate on their value increasing, bypassing the whole faucet altogether.
I don't really understand your $5000 gaming mouse comment, if you're good at programming then just make a bot yourself, I'm not suggesting anyone pay money for a bot!
And your last comment reminds me of the scourge of signature campaigns here on BCT - by incentivising people to post just to get money for posting creates an environment where everyone posts bullshit just to get paid. Fuck that shit, it creates an annoying signal to noise ratio where the interesting content gets buried underneath irrelevant nonsense.