The worst thing is that it’s not even “the world deciding”, so far the Bitcoin community has been quite small. Just a small group of hyper enthusiasts seem to be enough to create disastrous effects.

You can have a very small (in relative numbers) community deciding for the rest of the world that dedicating all our energy to making them rich is the future and so far we don’t seem to be able to say “no”.

Proof of Work has been a horrible poisoned gift to the world.