Everyone I've talked about to Bitcoin reacts simarly. They expect it's some sort of way out from the rats race and they are going to get rich like the stories they read, but as soon as you told them these were the early adopters they lose interest and say they would rather get paid in actual money.
But you are wrong.
Yes, I think he is wrong too. We are the early adaptors. Take the forum as indicator, there 347.634 members. In a few years I think this will reach 1.000.000 members, the price per BTC may be far beyond $1000.
We'll see our $1,000 before we see the 1,000,000 members, I'm almost sure of it. We'll be getting more members because of the second spike, and it will hopefully plateau there, for a little while, and then go up.
Tell your friends they're making a huge mistake, and the next spike to $1,000 will be missed because of what they think. That always works for me.
Im new and even if tried, most people will not get big gains from a 1000 dollar spike. Unless it goes to like what, 10K? it will not make life changing changes for people's lifes. It's too expensive for most people to get into Bitcoin now, they think "I cant even own 1 BTC".
I for example cant buy 1BTC but im still into it because im sort of a nerd. But then again, success is when non nerds use the product.