So the only way to obtain BC is basically to buy them and help make other people wealthy?
The short mining period was considered a fair distribution?
Not asking these questions as a form of complaint, just trying to gather people's opinions.
Yes, absolutely. The majority of those who mined however, immediately dumped their coins sending the price from 1500 sat to under 500 as soon as the PoW phase ended... the only ones that are being "made wealthy" (me for one) are people that believed in the coin and held from the beginning and then bought more and held those too.
It's not perfect certainly - but can you provide me with any opportunities in this life where every person in the world is called on the phone and told "hey, there's going to be something great... but you won't see it for about a month and you'll have to spend time and possibly money up front to get it".
And even if there was... only a handful would do something about it - and then millions would come afterward crying about how unfair it was that they didn't take action when the opportunity was presented.
Sucks for them, but this thread didn't get this big in just one day... it's been there since the beginning. If nothing else, it's still way more fair than BTC or LTC is... so I don't really think 'fair' means squat in crypto currencies.
Nope, I never win anything... but with what my BC holdings are worth now... I'm pretty sure I can afford a couple motherboards myself (or a thousand of them).

Hopefully, the winner is someone who can actually use one!