We're still printing them at a quarter million bitcoins a month, even if they are worth .00001 cent each.
If someone can logically answer why there is no mechanism to slow down the rate of printing then I want to hear it.
The one and only reason Bitcoin has real followers it that the money supply cannot be tempered with. It's also the only advantage it has to centralized fiat.
Furthermore, the fact that this is infinitely more important than how inflation occurs is its only defense against copies (with different inflation curves) randomly inflating the space.