You can pay less to lower your priority of course, or pay more to raise your priority. Similarly, miners can focus on higher priority transactions to make their profit.

Nonetheless, the real effects of deflation are beginning to show. BTC is a worse coin than DOGE for internet tipping. It costs more per transaction and takes longer for those transactions to take place. And as long as the BTC community is blinded by deflationary greed, the problem will remain.

Basically, I can transfer money with DOGE within minutes for nearly free (roughly one ten-thousanth of a penny), or I can use BTC to transfer money within hours for $0.05... or within days if I try to be cheaper.