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>>16214542
Here's the one-year chart. You can see that the only time you needed to actually pay to get into the next few blocks was from mid-March to mid-July, when the price was escalating sharply and people were piling in. Even during those periods, if you didn't mind waiting an hour or two, you were fine. Otherwise, the only reason to put a fee in was so that your transaction would be transmitted, because most miners nowadays ignore zero-fee transactions.