Good luck-- I share your view that coming up with better ways of playing zero-sum games is not the way to make the world a better place.
The fact that this statement is coming from the 'lead developer' of Bitcoin does NOT make me feel good about the future of the Bitcoin project. Shows a complete ignorance of markets and economics. Epic epic epic fail.
+1
But don't worry, bitcon doesn't need its developpers to understand economics to keep its value, as long as it keeps its original creator's properties (and it will).