I wouldnt pay .07 to get confirms ever. To me i feel the fees are high enough on their own and this sort of stuff is what will make btc never become mainstream currency. Too much technical stuff that regular people wont understand.
Bitcoin is a voluntary system.
Nobody can force you to pay a fee, you voluntarily pay what you want. You might choose to use a wallet that has a minimum fee, or some set of fee rules, but that's your choice.
Equally, nobody can force a miner (or mining pool) to confirm transactions. They voluntarily confirm whichever transactions they want. They might choose mining software that has set rules on transaction selection, but that's their choice.
Since the amount of byte space in a block is limited, it's in a miner's (or pool's) best financial interest to confirm the transactions that pay the highest fee per byte. If they include a transaction that pays less, then they make less money. If they include a transaction that pays more, then they make more money for the exact same amount of "work".
If you were doing work, and could choose between being paid "less" for your work, or being paid "more" for your work, which would you choose?
Someone should just be nice and confirm them for me vs trying to get even more money out of a user. I can wait if i need to, been waiting this long.
Yes, as part of a voluntary system you certainly can wait for a miner to choose to make less money and confirm your transaction for you out of the charity in their heart, leaving someone else that paid more and was hoping to get a fast confirmation to have to wait a bit longer because the miner decided to be nice to you instead of to the higher paying customer.
This could happen in the next block, or in a few days, or weeks, or years. Hopefully it will get confirmed soon, but don't be surprised if you are waiting for a very long time.
Was just hoping there was an easy way to get stuff done
There is. If you want someone to do some work for you, pay them to do that work. Pay them at least as much as the average person in the market is paying for the same thing. The financial incentive that you provide will act as an enticement to choose to do what you want instead of choosing to do what someone else that is paying less wants.
