Why do you want BTC to reach $1 Million?

Disclaimer: on a scale of 1 to 10 on crypto expertise, I think I probably come in at 4 so I'm all ears, and very keen to learn from any comments you might have. Actually, if you can comment, I think I need the input to help me get my head straight on this!

I have some thoughts though, so here goes.

I hold some BTC, BCH, DASH, ETH
I even have some interesting smaller project's coins like Swarm City...(I see a little commonality in the ethos and approach of SWT to the Steemit project btw, which I like)

So I'd like to see the $ price of coins moonshot. Hell, who doesn't want a one way ticket to easy street.

I am troubled by the point of the million dollar ambitions though.
The law of large numbers makes me struggle with this. If BTC was $1Million then the BTC in circulation would be about $17 Trillion, bigger than the value of all the NASDAQ companies combined.
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Even if I'm comparing apples with oranges, and it's a store of value, and the new gold...the total value of gold ever mined is $7.5 trillion
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So...anyone willing or able to explain to me why BTC should have this kind of valuation, I'd be really happy to hear from you.

Righto...let's put all that aside

If e.g. BTC reaches 1 million...then what?
Prices of assets don't plateau ( unless they are the dividend aristocracy like Proctor and Gamble or whatever, and even they go up and down a bit) BTC and crypto is Tesla on steroids, so it either goes up, or down, and rapidly at that.
Perhaps it will mature naturally and be so established with so much use and utility that plateauing ( give or take 5 or 10%) might be possible.
OK OK, then, let's assume it can go to a million, plateau, overcome it's issues, and still be around in 2050....

WHY is is so important to moonshoot. I get that some of the money flows back in to development and uptake from excited users, but if the point of crypto was to free the world of inefficient centralised capitalism and banks and empower the millions, why is such a materialistic lambo success desire even a thing?

Can crypto really be 'the biggest transfer of wealth in history'
My doubts arise from the fear that the powers that be are unlikely to allow anything of the sort. Just think of how the internet operates...or doesn't in China, and how social media has become a tool for control as opposed to the opposite, in the west.

Surely there is a danger that the moonshot frenzy poses a risk to the actual project.

I dunno. I'm just thinking/typing out loud I suppose, and I'm still pretty new to this, so I'm really interested to hear peoples thoughts on the existential philosophy and approach to what the hell this is all about.

I think Steem is the perfect place to ask this, btw, as it has great intentions for humanity at it's core, or at least it seems to have, from the people I've met so far.

This quote is both hopeful and encapsulates my fears for the project, and I'd like to see Frederick Douglass quoted everyday anyhow :)

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Thanks for reading...if you've got this far!

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It's important because i need money bad.. :)

Ha!
That's what I feared, but it's not the answer I was hoping for...bah, hopium is a bad advisor I guess!