The free market can't be always pushing down the price of all goods
You are looking at the wrong thing. Specifically, you're looking at exchange ratios ("prices") when you should be looking at how much value gets produced and how much human input/labour does that value need (aka "the productivity of labour").
Maybe all these forces are acting at once and going into weird feedback loops
Let me try again, in all caps. REALITY CHECK.
there's no reason why the end result would be moral in any way
That entirely depends on your morality.
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