Raising prices hurts the guys with less available play time much more than it hurts the cash/capship/trade/whatever-whores. This plan would cause people who would rather roleplay than grind incessantly for a cruiser for their faction to just go look for something fun to do.
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."