I think its being looked at all wrong, its not about collecting, trading and earning millions its about spending and getting the btc economy on the move, a cup of coffe, loaf of bread, fill my car up etc, this needs to be useable to succeed or surely we all end up with a load of useless digicash.
Excellent post.
It is an effect of Gresham's Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
For those who don't remember DigiCash
http://waste.informatik.hu-berlin.de/grassmuck/Texts/ecash.e.html
Yes, we do need to spend, and to spend especially with those we value as contributing to the society we are building. Spending deserves thanks and some honor. When I receive bitcoin, it lets me value that customer more.
I feel motivated to do more for the bitcoin community.