The journey of a thousand miles begins with a step and I consider those who were opportuned to mine Bitcoin and also invested at the early days as the ones who took the best step, it's not supposed to be debated cause we've all seen the success of the project from the first day of creation by Satoshi to this present day, except maybe the ones who sold their assets for unnecessary wants, but people who held for a long term are benefiting well from their decisions currently. However there should be no calls for alarm for those who weren't opportuned to invest at the early days cause there's still hope and the different ATH's Bitcoin has reached is a big prove, so the best decision to make is to invest at this point when it's still the current price. The people I feel sorry for are those who have the financial capacity to invest heavily in Bitcoin but still have doubt over it's potential, I mean why would anyone even have doubts when they've seen Bitcoin set different ATH since it's creation to this point, well there would always be a doubting Thomas, those who would still find it difficult to believe even when they've seen prove that sometime is real. Nevertheless, if there's anyone who's willing to invest in Bitcoin but still have doubts, I put it to you that the best decision you'll make is to buy Bitcoin and Hodl, don't get discouraged by the drop in price cause I believe you should've known by now what volatility means.
Thing is, once I was also one of those who were too poor to really put any meaningful amount of money into bitcoin, it was just that shit aligned right for me and I was patient and smart enough not to deal with instant gratification that I was able to be where I am at right now, and even then I had to lose it all just to regain it back eventually.
To many people, investing's hardest step is making that first leap of faith and actually jumping into the world, some of them are too afraid of not being able to take profit that it outweighs their desire to earn more, and while I don't really blame them cause hey, our risk capacities aren't the same and some people just couldn't bear to lose it all and still be able to eat tomorrow, there are ways for you to be able to have a stake at something, especially crypto, without even putting money on the line. What worked for me was bitcointalk, what could work for you is something else. It's all a matter of self-discovery in a sense.