Gavin Andresen - 2012-07-25 23:31:57

It isn't dooommmmzz but it does distort the market.  Luckily it is self correcting.  As tx volume increases and tx fees increase the block subsidy will decline and make the network more of a "pay per performance" model.
Self-correcting assuming there are good market dynamics between miners and users.  That's broken right now, but I'm working on fixing it (see pull #1590 for the first step).