Jonathan, you make some interesting points.
1) Amazon comparison - Bitcoin is the same thing, both the buyer and seller can win. The seller gets the price appreciation up to the point of sale; the buyer will eventually get to use this phenomenal technology (whether to send money to family as a remittance, as a store of value to save up for a Tesla, or just as a 6 month living expense emergency fund). Also nice your stock example is Amazon and not Kodak, Enron, Sears or Pan-Am Airlines.
2) Gold - Why exclude the 20% sitting in central banks? Bitcoin is the greatest reserve currency asset we have on earth. I look forward to the day the 1st central bank begins to accumulate Bitcoin (followed quickly after by other central banks adding it as a reserve currency. I think in France there are already rumors and whispers).
3) Layers - You cannot look at total energy consumption. They are hydroelectric facilities that are 500 km's from any electric grid and they use excess energy to mine Bitcoin. Same thing with hydro dams in Quebec, where the government allows mining with excess energy that cannot be stored. Same thing at some of the hydro dams in China where they overbuilt. If you look at oil drillers in Texas, some of them used to flare off excess gas because they are not connected to a pipeline (now with Bitcoin mining they have a way to use it). Granted a good portion of Bitcoin mining electricity still comes from coal based sources, this issue could be solved by switching from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake, or Layer 2 solutions as I mentioned (where Bitcoin transactions will be moved off chain and use virtually no energy). On chain activity, might only account for major multi-million dollar transfers of value. On that topic, the legacy banking industry still uses an estimated 5X the energy consumption that Bitcoin does, so we also really need to clean up the dirty legacy financial industry (might need more cleaning than Bitcoin needs).
4) Inflation - LOL gold is a poor long term inflation hedge? Over last 130 years, housing prices have been in a tight range of ~200 ounces of gold to ~600 ounces of gold per house (even in biblical times, there are documents of houses being sold for ~500 ounces of gold). Meanwhile your USD is expected to deteriorate ~2% each and every year... Actually the USD has dropped ~95%+ over the last 100 years. If you are Apple and sitting on $100 Billion USD, you are expecting it to lose ~25% over the next decade just by keeping USD on your balance sheet. Not yet certain Bitcoin is superior, but there is a non-trivial chance that it is far superior to USD, EUR or JPY fiat money when used as a reserve currency.
source on gold vs. houses:
https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-estate-gold-ratio/