One of the reasons a lot of people on these forums don't care about economic theory is because it doesn't work.

Like everything to do with money once someone figures how to manipulate the system, the system stops working and ends up being something it was never intended to be.

The beauty of bitcoin is that once someone starts to manipulate it and it stops working right, people can simply abandon it for a different altcoin of some kind.

It's that simple...conventional economic theory is so yesterday.