Free-market bidding WORKS when there’s consistent demand. You ASSUME this demand for on-chain settlement in a world that is increasingly moving off-chain to AVOID those fees! Greed finds a way.

Housing and bandwidth are necessities. Blockspace is optional while competing/preferable alternatives exist. Also, BTCs transparent ledger exposes every settlement to surveillance. Why TF, in a post Samurai world, would you really expect or encourage people to pay for a public record of their finances in a surveillance state? Lemme guess, freedom.