Actually, the question immediately above that one, "Won't loss of wallets and the finite amount of Bitcoins create excessive deflation, destroying Bitcoin?", re

Actually, the question immediately above that one, "Won't loss of wallets and the finite amount of Bitcoins create excessive deflation, destroying Bitcoin?", really gets to the heart of what I really wanted to understand. My phrasing was really meant as a "reduction to absurdity" kind of formulation, as in "what if all the Bitcoins were lost?"