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.
If you know of such a mechanism, which
- can be enforced easily by each node (bitcoin's security system)
- does not depend on a centralized data source (exchange rate eg.)
- is not easily influenced by people who want to take advantage of it (eg. rate/size of transactions in the block chain)
then I want to hear it.