This thread is such a lie.  Anyone who investigates the truth of the Monero launch will understand that its release was fairer than 99% of all coins out there, and that the very, very small amount of benefit that certain people got over others early on was caused by the fact that it was initially forked from Bytecoin, and thus its miner was forked from a mining software who purpose was to fake a 2 year history of the coin.   

The ones who profited from this are not the current dev team, but rather a couple of individuals who optimized the miner and then mined and sold the Monero they made, putting these coins out into the hands of many.