Lightning channels are the future of cooperative relationships between parties that currently pretend to trust each other.

The threat of closing the channel will incentivize good behavior and cooperation, especially when fees are 1000 sats/vbyte.

Instead of behaving to curry favor from people you perceive to be powerful or influential, we will behave with a priority towards protecting our lightnjng channels with the people we have cooperative business relationships with.

https://risk-fundamentals.ghost.io/building-annuities-on-the-lightning-protocol/