I just wonder: are Early Adopters rich?
We know AA, author of "Mastering Bitcoin" was once attacked because he did not made any fortune having BTC from early years, then people donated some BTC and he collected around 100BTC.
Hal F's wife sued "I am Satoshi guy" and they were talking about $ 3-digit mln, so they are not kind of people who wait every month for their wage.
What about others? Bitcoin Core developers? Forum admins or well-known old users? Are they crazy rich living in their own castles or did they lost their coins, sold for $10 because of mortgage loan or student's debt and today they must work 7-15 every day?
Well, you could say that there are some people who made a fortune HODLing majority of their BTCs at their designated wallets.
While majority of these people have sold their BTCs during the time when its price was relatively low, there are a quite few people that I know that HODLed their BTCs and until now, they have quite a few at their wallets. But imagine if you were one of those people who were fortunate enough to have lots of BTCs back in the days, chances are that you would probably sold them at a price around $100 when it first came out.