[pyronite]

This is unfortunately the market and “capitalism” working as it should. Price goes up, incentive to produce more goes up too.

[Capricorn2481]

Not necessarily. If the entire industry triples its prices and alienates 40% the market, it's still coming out ahead. It only incentivizes producing more if there are enough people unwilling to pay for the new prices, or if it were easy for a newcomer to come in (it's not)