Here's my list of a few of the good things that might happen to you and me if the Y2K problem turns out to be real. Those telephone-solicitor calls will stop because the companies' computers mistakenly trash their collections of phone numbers. The Y2K bug becomes a match-maker. If you're a man, you mistakenly receive the phone number of several lovely ladies who had signed on with a computerized dating service. You get magazine subscriptions that you never ordered, free.
Months pass before the publishers' computers are working properly and the flow of magazine stops.
Their computers goof and pay off. Because of the Y2K meltdown, computerized telephone-answering systems fail, so corporations and government agencies have to hire people to answer their phones. Instead of getting a machine, you get to talk to a human being. The computers of cable TV and satellite companies go berserk, and you're getting free channels. Your credit card balance disappears and is lost forever in the electronic wilderness of a Y2K bug-infested computer.