No what I mean is the fees alone need to be sufficient for the security budget. If tailings are required there's a much bigger problem.
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High fees kill layer one medium of exchange. Even higher fees kill self custody in layer twos. Force closures become expensive thus raising the minimum channel balance for security. Opening channels are also more expensive thus raising the bar for self custody.
Tail emission is absolutely essential for proper layer one medium of exchange. It's a huge reason why Monero is so user friendly. Guaranteed cheap fees for perpetuity. Dynamic blocks are a big part of this too, both work in tandem to make the best layer one medium of exchange network we have today.
Utilization numbers respective of market cap being disproportionately represented by Monero proves the fruit of this combination.
keeping l1 transactable for ordinary people is just one aspect of tail emission.
The simple fact is that the security burden of the network has to be born by all users. NOT just those users that spend.
The results of pricing in a fixed supply of monetary units is obvious in Bitcoin culture.
nobody uses Manhattan real estate as a MOE.