i don't know to be happy that people believe bitcoin can reach $5k or pity them for investing crap load of money in bitcoin and sit back and watch! (gamble)
I believe that you just made a false correlation.
Merely because people believe bitcoin can reach $5k or more does not mean that they invested more than what they believe is a probable pay off. First there is the question of what probability one assigns to the $5k or higher outcome, and then their is the question of what portion of someone's quasi-liquid investable money are they putting into bitcoin such as 1%, 5%, 10%, 50% or some higher portion of their available investment money.
You seem to be conflating the two questions and then assume that some people are assigning both unrealistic probabilities to such $5k + bitcoin, and accordingly, they are also investing disproportionate to their view of probabilities.
I think that you should give more credit to the thinking of people and their ability to reasonably chose their investment level based on such views and assignments of probability.
Sure there is imperfect information out there and sure people are sometimes going to have unrealistic expectations based on the imperfect information, but that does not mean that they are stupid in accounting for their own financial situations when the chose how much and how to invest into bitcoin.
as for my plan. i have bought (invested money) as much as i was comfortable with, when price was low and i have no plan for selling them. i am hoping that one day i can spend them like normal fiat.
meanwhile i earn through trading and other stuff and sell those coins if i need the money.
While you assign illogic and craziness to other people, you assign rational thought and reasonableness to yourself and your actions. Seems a bit strange. Yeah, sure there are a lot of people who take a kind of gambling approach, but also there is a lot of variation, too... and some of the posters, here are likely trolls or paid shills, so they are not really being genuine regarding what they are actually doing in respects to investing in bitcoin.. and spreading misinformation in order to distract from the value and upside potential of bitcoin.