[Digiconomist]

So, the block reward is indeed increasing, but two other things are increasing very fast. First is the price per Bitcoin, and second is the number of fees per block. Just the day before yesterday miners received 1800 coins from mining and an additional 500 from fees. That's already over 20% of the total daily reward. This two things are more than compensating the loss of block rewards (in BTC terms). Things aren't expected to improve based on this.

It's kind of insane if you compare to other payment services (if that's how you use BTC). Not only do you pay $5-$10 per transactions, but that transaction also consumes 20,000-30,000 times more energy.