Supply and demand is a part of the free market philosophy, and it also exists in non-capitalist ideologies. What a free market is supposed to do is well underst

Supply and demand is a part of the free market philosophy, and it also exists in non-capitalist ideologies. What a free market is supposed to do is well understood and studied...what it actually does with the addition of caveats such as political motives, human nature, competition, etc... is very different. Sounds like you're the one that got conned.