It seems you have applied the wrong conclusions and limited the basis.
The coin truly is used to pay for network resources and is used to pay farmers. This is the network economics and the price in safecoin (not $$$) of resources is determined by spare resources.
The human economics is not necessarily tied to anything specific. Yes there will be a base price that the coin should not go below and that is a premium on storage costs. But because the coin can be speculated, can be used as a form of instant, fee less payments, can be used for micropayments means that it is not tied to storage costs.
Definitely
Please note: actual price speculation and trading talk is limited to one topic MaidSafeCoin (MAID) - Price & Trading topic (Part 1) which has some conditions on its use.