If you really know how to move and play along in this market, in whatever market situations we are in (bullish/bearish), no doubt that you can still make yourself rich, assuming you have a big capital to spend in the market to begin with. But it seems that people here doesn't have the patience, or no longer interested when the market is in a bearish trend. But remember that this market never rest, so as traders or speculators you should also take advantage of every situation to make a profit, it doesn't matter if it's just a small percentage, it's the total accumulation that counts.
Indeed there's a way to take advantage the market regardless if it is bearish or bullish, its just depend on our strategy.
For this year btc managed to recover from 3000$ to 10000$ currently so if you buy btc early of this year (like what I did) you probably earn by this time. But the situation is different when it comes to altcoins because alts are struggling and only those who can bear the situation has a chance to gain if ever alts recover.
If you know how to deal with your investment then you can think of way to not stay negative and become patient to wait for the right chance to take profit.
and those rich young people? rhetoric questions.. funny thing is, that when comes this so called bad times, there would be persons, who will make huge money on such low market. 
