Those sure are a lot of predictions stated as fact.
Some discussion on eg. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5403254.0
I’m open to a convincing argument otherwise but most of what I’ve observed is hand wavy and requires a religious leap of faith and conversion.
That's like saying people who own Tesla stock have no incentive to keep the stock price high. Of course their is incentive for current holders to want to maintain the high asset price...