Good opportunities are not equally available to everyone. Good opportunities may not be scarce in numbers but access to good opportunities is scarce for many. Access to great opportunities may come once in a lifetime for most.
Example? To be involved in crypto in 2013 was a once in a life time opportunity equal to having had the chance to go to an ivy league school. This sort of opportunity can be leveraged into many smaller good opportunities which can spawn from it, but if someone misses the boat due to fear of risk they might never in their life time get another opportunity as great.
We have to understand even as early adopters on Steemit, even you and I, are statistically as lucky as people who made it into the NBA or an ivy league school, and may in fact capture wealth in a similar way if we play our cards right, but we have to understand it is a matter of having been in the right place, at the right time, with the right knowledge, and the will, ability to work hard and be motivated.
It's true opportunities are not available to everyone,but at least we all get some opportunity.
As I said earlier in my comment,I think taking and seizing opportunities takes personal development,the ability to see a good opportunity and seize it.
There are many people who have joined and still join Steemit daily,but few are the ones who see Steemit as an opportunity...This all stems to personal development!!!
Many guys can't see the opportunity Steemit is,it is because it is not related to their vision(if they have a vision anyway).....!!!
As you said we early adopters,I personally joined last June 2017,but still consider myself an early adopter and cannot cal myself lucky...I have searched for such an opportunity for almost 5 years......tried a lot of stuff and failed but never gave up until finally I got Steemit...