I see it exactly the opposite way. The people getting excited about micro payments are the ones who have failed to grasp the revolutionary potential offered by the prospect of doing things collectively, in distributed fashion, without having to saddle every interaction with the overhead of commerce. Amazing things become possible when you give up the need to pay and be paid; the micropayment people don't seem to be able to see that vision.

We've been doing commerce for millennia; it is profoundly boring.