The first question is whether you can afford to lose the money you have invested. Is $6,000 a bid deal for you? If it is, you might not have the stomach to live through the ups and downs. You might be tempted to cut your losses when your investment drops by 50%. You might not be able to hold for the long term.
People can always scale down to an amount of which they don't mind losing in case their investment blanks out. People's problem is their greed and high expectations, which works against them, especially in a bear market.
If everyone actually invested what they could afford to lose, they wouldn't be so stressed out and also wouldn't hope for a miraculous bull run to eat through their virtual losses. It really is people's fault.
People have even taken out loans to buy crypto, which is mind bogglingly stupid. It just shows how desperate people must have been to finally make the money they otherwise wouldn't be able to make in their entire lives.
I have read a few stories about these people and they really considered crypto to be a life changing opportunity. The sad reality is that it did actually change their lives, but not in the way they hoped it would.