How can you say you lost $80,000 when you didn't have any Zclassic when the price spiked? You didn't lose anything.
That's like saying you lost $50,000,000 because you didn't buy a lottery ticket that might have won.
In any case, there are plenty of other moonshot opportunities, just invest $500 each into the top 10 promising candidates, you only need one to succeed to recoup your investment and more.
He is right. What you could do now is to analyze trends and buy tokens when "there is blood on the streets". Or even better invest in a project during presale stage and get your bonus, wait and sell when you have profit (usually when token is listed) - that's called FLIP.