You ' re right . the market never actually sets the price of goods based on the consumers ability to pay . that ' s why shovels were so affordable to gold miners during the gold rush . Colleges never raise their tuition rates in the presence of cheap loans . Healthcare never increases its cost in areas where insurance is mandatory and prices are deregulated . More government intervention always solves problemn and Socialist Welfare States have been so successful that they ' ve driven the idea of Capitalism completely out of existence . I definitely vote to model countries after Venezuela , Argentina , et . al . Plenty of people write flowery praise for bad ideas . Referring to them as if they prove something is worthless .