Believe it or not it's possible to earn more than early adopters.  If you buy 1k of bitcoins now at 27 dollars and they eventually become worth... say 2700. Then that is 100X your initial investment. And it would be worth 2.7 million dollars.

If someone has 50k coins right now and they decide to bail out and sell....... they would make 1.3 million dollars. So you beat even someone with 100k coins who sells now. (aside from time)

Right now IS still early adopter phase. But it's also risky