Of course Supply and Demand works.
So does the Law of Gravity.
That's why we have pilots, balloonists, astronauts and mountain climbers.
The whole purpose of capitalists, the only reason they exist, is to find ways to cheat the laws of supply and demand.
Freedom vs control, indeed. That's like nature vs nurture, predestination vs free will. Its a phony choice, a false equivalence. The whole point is to keep you waking up every morning and getting to work on time. and to convince you that the only reason you've been cheated and robbed is because you deserve it, because you're too stupid and too lazy to have stopped it.
If you really want freedom, stop playing the game by their rules.
"There is no good and there is no evil, Harry. There is only power."
-Lord Voldermort