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The OS will take around 5GB if you have multiple system updates and patches applied over the course of a year or two.
You've probably got 3GB usable on an 8GB phone for the life of the phone.
If you don't use the phone as music and image storage, but instead stream music (Spotify, etc) and have uploaded images to elsewhere (Dropbox or G+), then 3GB is actually very usable.
Just checked my phone, and with no thought or limitation on what I've downloaded my phone is only using 2.0GB of space. That's with some offline map caching, Guardian set to download everything on a sync (everything... including images and comments), and 67 apps installed.
In my case I'd have 1GB scratch space on top of everything I do with a phone.
8GB is probably the smallest amount of storage a phone could usably have, but given that we now do have cloud storage for everything and the phone is only a thin client, it's actually all you really need.
Far more critical is how much RAM a phone has, as that limits the working space, will force the phone to background more (creating a larger scratch space on the internal storage), and will be the thing that makes the phone feel sluggish.
The Moto-G has 1GB of RAM.
Just checking mine again, currently running 14 apps in the background and 1 in the foreground: Using 682MB RAM.
Seems you'd probably be fine there too.
There may be some edge cases in which both RAM and storage are temporarily challenged... but I'd say that a phone with 8GB storage and 1GB RAM would be fine for it's lifetime. Especially if you have no pressing need to consume the internal storage.