Yes, I understand that now. I was under the impression that the coin limit was somehow fixed forever and could not be altered (like a transaction deep in the blockchain can't be changed anymore). But that's obviously not the case.
This text is recorded in the coinbase of genesis block
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"
Related article
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/4092926/Second-bank-bailout-plans-condemned.htmlThis event was from England, so I guess that Satoshi is an english scholar. England has always been famous about so many great economists. Such a genius design of bitcoin is surely based on some deeper thoughts in macro economy
So in a worst case scenario where people have large disagreement with bitcoin's future direction, at least they will have a consensus that bitcoin will never take the same route as today's debt driven monetary system, since that is recorded in the genesis block
In fact, even the coin generation rate are changed in future, the bitcoin is still FUNDAMENTALLY different than today's debt driven money issurace: Each coin is
debt freeThis is maybe the hard-wired fact that OP is looking for