Nope, the people who manufacture the mining tools are not the only ones making money. Electricity prices varies alot depending where you live (i.e. it's cheap here in Quebec). Also, mining one of the many crytocurrencies is only one option, trading is the other. Im not saying it's easy to make money, only that it's possible to do so if you invest substantial time and money into it.

its not my current speed though.some websites only pay after reaching a certain #

Let me correct you: a corruptible, non-academic valued government declared bitcoin as solely property and not currency. Why? Because government sustains itself off leeching from productive economic activity, and it just so happens to benefit government (from the perspective of the people who compose it) to label bitcoin as taxable property. Realistically, the taxes the IRS claims bitcoin should have are not enforceable because bitcoin has full anonymity. As far as economics go; however, bitcoin fits the criteria of a currency, and the IRS is not an academic entity which can make consensual economic claims, but rather a bureaucratic arm of the state, whose sole purpose is to manage the money it steals from real economically productive powers. The beauty of these cryptocurrencies is that the state has only one power to prevent their competition with its [the state's] debt money: ban its use with the use of force and label those who use crypto-currencies as criminals. Since that is an outright socialist policy, which would be politically unpopular, and detrimental to the state's image, cryptocurrencies will remain unregulated and subjected to market forces, exceeding the ability of the debt (USD) for the needs of individuals. Eventually, big companies will start focusing on their own currencies (similar to credit card points) and we'll see a free-market in money.