Adam Smith's metaphor of the "invisible hand" applies. The general market, without being skewed by "handouts," will decide as a market decides. Too much? Too expensive? Too little? Too cheap?
Read most of the various articles about "Price signal," and what is seen is that, in the framework of liberty, pricing takes care of itself. By itself. That invisible hand.
My conclusion is that what this world currently suffers from is too much government and too much government debt and too much government interference in and against "liberty."
Given this, I fully expect the "invisible hand," and any other metaphor one might choose as a lens through which to see this world, will calibrate all. Again. As it has in the past.
Government is the problem. The least governance is the least problem, and the most governance is the greatest problem.
But, the narcissist cannot control their impulses.