Bitcoin will never be used for payments so it could not be used for real economy.
Bitcoin has been used for payments, is used for payments and will be used for payments.
I have done it, others have done it and if you would really want to do it you could do that easily.
Economy needs working fiat / assets / currency used for payment and you need to control it by emitting new coins or burning useless one.
I understand your desire for inflationist coins, but I'm quite puzzled on the last part.
How can you say some coins in the chain ar "useless"?
This is not happening even in the inflationist fiat world, you don't burn old money that has been sitting in a bank for 20 years, the worst you can do is issue a demonetization of old coins and notes but nobody, no authority and no government will simply decide that one set of notes with a certain serial number will not be considered of any value from tomorrow.
As soon as there not enough bitcoins and last one would be mined, there will no possibility to make transactions using bitcoins.
Because....
I was thinking the same thing recently. Even tho bitcoin's limited supply makes each sat worth more - it immobilize it and won't let it be freely distributed and exchanged among people.
You can start by distributing your coins for free to people that have got none. When do you plan to start?
Like it or not too many people have read and followed my signature.
Although I don't really agree with your vision, Phil, the author is not claiming anything related to your, he has simply decided that
BTC is flawed and it will not go anywhere.
Not like a highway, nor like a truck, nothing, it will simply be useless because it has no inflation and no central authority.