Fees don't price spam out, spam is getting larger. Look at the data. Bitcoin mempool and blockchain is for monetary transactions. Spam currently takes more than 36% of the blockchain space and brings less than 1% of revenue for the miners. It devalues Bitcoin, its a waste, it makes running a node harder and it hinders decentralization. There are memcoins for spam and jpegs. Bitcoin is Freedom Money.

Issue #3 - Three Years of Spam

From zero to 36%: a timeline