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It's not that cryonics is one of the best ways that you can spend money, it's that cryonics is one of the best ways that you can spend money on yourself. Since almost everyone who is likely to read this spends a fair amount of money on themselves, almost everyone who is likely to read this would be well-served by signing up for cryonics instead of <insert other selfish purchase here>.
Short but not true. Cryonics is one of the ways that, in the self-directed part of your life, you can pretend to be part of a smarter civilization, be the sort of sane person who also fights existential risk in the other-directed part of their life. Anyone who spends money on movie tickets does not get to claim that they have no self-directed component to their life.
I don't think I'm suggesting that people don't have a self-directed component to their lives, though I suppose there could be some true "charity monks" or something out there. I'd be surprised, though, since I wouldn't even count someone like Peter Singer as without self-directed elements to his life. I only left the potential exception there because I think there is a chance that someone reading the post will not have sufficient funds to purchase the life insurance necessary for cryonic preservation.