For the average person to have a chance in the current economic climate to build wealth through investing, they are going to have to break away from the mindset of the old guard, because following that mindset is only going to make those early investors, richer.

exactly. I doubt a prime Buffet would've passed on crypto. He's 100 years old for peace sakes, why should young investors in a novel technology care about what he thinks about something he clearly doesn't understand