But I bought some early and I deserve to become a gajillionaire overnight without working.
If you made money by buying bitcoin a long time ago, you didn't get something for nothing. And if you sell it now, you can profit before the game of musical chairs collapses. So there is a limited window of arbitrage.
A little bit of work multiplied by a lot of risk and time.
Also it didn’t require any real work, just blind faith or forgetting that you even had bitcoin to begin with for a while.