Are fees necessary for clam? If staking is same and not ending over the time ?
As CLAM grows I believe the block reward can be removed entirely due to high number of transactions with fees + low energy costs.That's going to be a up hill fight to get the block reward removed and honestly I like the block reward + fees.
As was previously mentioned, transaction fees are an important incentive and Denial of Service feature.
Concerning the perpetual 1 CLAM per block reward, it is designed to replace the deflation of lost or burned CLAMs and provide for a stable and conservative level of additional inflation.