Well, there was the earlier adopters, those who don't mine them almost for free, buy them for really low prices, is what you get when you believe in a new project who isn't popular yet. It was about luck, those who join to cryptos in 2009 or 2010 had good luck, and those who hold their coins for this 10 years was wise... but those who buy pizza for 10,000 btc doesn't have the right vision
If the creators had good intention and wise, they could written bitcoin core to establish an equal amount of satoshi's for every 10 mins of block reward during entire 130 years, till bitcoin fully released its bitcoin.
This is what i want to point at. Is a fact what i say. Imagine how can they manipulate prices, if small groups own more then 70% of bitcoins.