I then proposed that the Core devs do that on Core.  It was meant to be a just counter-trolling.  But it seems that Greg and Luke-Jr are seriously dreaming the option of doing just that in case the miners switch to Classic.  It is Idiocracy II -- but with bitcoin!

One of them is that he may have realized that bitcoin was quickly becoming a speculation instrument rather than the payment system he had set out to design; and that people were using MtGOX as a bank and intermediary, which defeated the goal of bitcoin. A rational person like him should have seen that things would only get worse -- and would have lost intrest.

The fact that new coins are produced means the money supply increases by a
planned amount, but this does not necessarily result in inflation. If the
supply of money increases at the same rate that the number of people using it
increases, prices remain stable. If it does not increase as fast as demand,
there will be deflation and early holders of money will see its value increase.