Exactly. Tokens are like tickets. You want to get on the train or bus? You buy a token. You want to gamble? Buy some chips. It's not going to gain in value over the years and it's not designed for you to keep your money in it for long periods of time. It's not designed for you to actually spend it either, it's for a specific purpose within a narrow focus of a community.
Devcoin is like that. It only exists as a support structure for Bitcoin until Bitcoin has infrastructure to pay people in Bitcoins and then Devcoin is done. No one is going to choose to get paid in Devcoins over Bitcoins just because theres an octillion Devcoins. And the moment someone comes along and forks Devcoin and adds the ability for the tokens/coupons to expire is the moment Devcoin becomes second best. Nothing is wrong with infinite inflation if the inflation is nice and slow, and if there is an expiration date. Devcoins seem to have no expiration date and are generated so fast that I cannot see how it will work up against a fork which has expiration built in.
I disagree. Have just done another Devtome article on Bitcoins and the Big Mac Index:
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=bitcoin_and_the_big_mac_indexAs you can see Bitcoins are already becoming un-usable for transactions in some parts of the world (and that will soon be the case in the developed world too).
Some people laughed at the Winklevii for buying bitcoins and simply putting them in bank vaults - but perhaps they saw the nature of it more clearly - which is that it is a commodity not a currency. As soon as it becomes unviable for transactions, it ceases to be a currency, IMO.