I personally do not think it will be that high. And is the price being that high really a good thing because people will never be able to buy coins anymore if the price is that high, at least I don't.
How? Why?
You have, as an example, $1000. BTC/USD is $1, you buy $1000's worth of BTC (yielding 1000 BTC), BTC/USD rises 5% - you make 5% (i.e. $50).
Alternatively, BTC/USD is $10,000, you buy $1000's worth of BTC (yielding 0.1 BTC), BTC/USD rises 5% - you make 5% (i.e. $50).
What's the magic price at which people are somehow mysteriously unable to buy BTC? 1 BTC is subdivided into 100,000,000 smaller parts ("satoshis"). The cost of one satoshi right now is vanishingly small. Wake me up when 1 satoshi is over $1000 - then we can talk about unaffordability. Until then this "unaffordable coins" nonsense is just nonsense.
Buying bitcoin for speculation and profit.
Sure there will always be a market for buying bitcoin to spend, but with a higher price the speculation aspect will decrease which means you can have more ROI with other investments.
So it's not a case of "people will never be able to buy coins anymore if the price is that high", but rather the argument Amph advanced - that people may choose not to buy.
Agree, and finally someone has math in them - which is weird, that 95% here don't understand math on a crypto forum..
Also, why we assume, or make it a condition, that the profitability of buying bitcoin at higher price ($10k+ for example) should be the same as buying at $1 value? The point of risk taking/early adoption/foresight is that it can and should yield larger profit!
Even more, at $10k+ prices, average Joe/corporations less likely to buy bitcoin for speculation, they will buy it because they HAVE TO, a lot of economic activity will start to say "bitcoin only, don't need pesos/bolivars/rands kthxbye", so for "laggards" it will becoming less of a choice day by day, but a necessity.
Just read the history of any shift, sudden change in the circulating money hyper-inflating/loosing liquidity en masse, and the new monetary unit spreading among the populace like the plague.
edit: now that i think of it, everything happens in sudden "unexpected" bursts in the economy (or in nature), stocks can crush in a day, complete industries can vanish in a couple of months due to innovation, countries can shoot up/down due to externalities, etc. The assumption, that somewhat bitcoin price won't follow an insane boom-bust trend in the future as well in the past, is naive, hence a big FOMO/mainstream press craziness can shoot it way over a "normal steady rise" price (and than collapse to some degree ofc!).