The following thought might be more appropriate in some other thread, but I have long wondered whether or not BTC gains by all/most of us represent some kind of "Zero Sum Game", looking at the larger view. That is, a win for me (or us) would be a LOSS for someone else?
My inclination is to think "No", that this is not a Zero Sum arena, as it is new technology that has great promise.
Free trade is never a zero sum game. This is the mistake lefties make all the time. They only ever count the beans.
I think the vast majority of time, you are going to be correct Richie.. because when a trade take place, there is usually going to be some surplus value that gets created and goes beyond the trade (or is created because of the trade), and perhaps one side will get more value than the other, but the overall value is likely greater than it would have been without the trade.
Now, if you have a bitcoin and I take it from you (like a robbery) and then it becomes my bitcoin, then that is a different story because it was not a voluntary transaction between us, and likely no value would have been traded there.. the value would have been transferred from you to me. But if you have a car, and you are selling it for a bitcoin and I buy it from you, then we both should have some surplus value from that particular trade, even if the surplus value is not likely going to be evenly split in the real world between us, but the fact that you said that you were selling it for 1 BTC, and I was willing to buy it for 1 BTC, there presumably should have been some extra value on each side.. unless I bargained you to death in terms of your just being neutral about whether to sell it for BTC because you initially advertised it for 1.5BTC... but in any event the overall value should quite likely be greater than if we had not done the trade.
The creation and existence of bitcoin creates value in a lot of different ways, so it would be very difficult to think about any aspect of the bitcoin ecosystem in a zero sum game kind of way, except if there were only robberies going on, and that surely would be a jaded view regarding what seems to be a whole hell of a lot of voluntary transactions in the BTC world that are motivated by various incentives and not forced takings. .. so overall increases in the overall size of the pie of value getting created on a minute by minute basis in bitcoin (and perhaps every 10 minutes, too)...
If all subsequent limits are exceeded then Bitcoin can be more than $150k+.
