So did they, but they choose differently.

Then why do you accuse them when you had the exact same chances and only your respective choices produced the different outcomes?

Yeah, but dogecoin still isn't worth anything and most of the altcoins from christmas past aren't either. You know what is, Mr. Skeptic? Two things: the jealousy you're feeling because they made a calculated risk and it paid off, and the fiat value of BTC as an asset. So run back to your stocks, keep making the same trades everybody else does in the name of "sense" and tell me how you feel when all that "sense" your talking about collapses in two years when the economy cycles.