Transaction fees on post merge Ethereum

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Transaction fees on post merge Ethereum

So currently the transaction fees are being paid to the miners. After the merge, the validators wont be paid transaction fees anymore. Transaction fees would be burned.

So why should a user even bid any amount of fees when broadcasting a transaction. To the validator, it makes no difference which transactions he lets through. He gets the same issuance regardless.

Would the validators try to get as much eth burned as possible to reduce the supply and make their eth more valuable? Is that their incentive?

But that consequence is beared by everyone on the network. Im just thinking cant validators censor certain transactions because it affects everyone equally and there is nothing disincentivizing them from doing so.

Like when I compare to bitcoin. If miners certain transactions they lose out on making as much money as possible. In ethereum, validators arent losing out on anything really by censoring transactions.

Also this concept of the people sitting on their money inflating the users of the money kinda resembles government bonds in a sense. Not that its bad or anything but thats what first comes to my mind.

I am not that well versed with ethereum. So please go easy on me.

Edit: Also as the circulating supply keeps growing, the effect of issuance would be much more reduced. In a way this system needs to have transactions with fees burned more and more as time goes on to incentivize validators to keep validating. If it starts losing activity, less fees would be burned, Issuance would increase circulating supply and the stake yields might not be enough to keep validators happy. Doesnt this fall into the same spiral that fiat falls into. "Need growth to incentivize bond buyers to prevent currency from inflating".

I might be wrong.

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