You might be willing to trust the market to ensure that we will have enough technical professionals tomorrow, but I am not. We need engineers. I, for one, am not going to trust the same invisible hand that gave us pets.com to provide them.
I'll start panicing about the astronauts having a few when they actually start affecting things. One of the major lessons of Challenger was that it is a very bad idea to wait until a problem starts to actually affect things before taking corrective action.
You might be willing to trust the market to ensure that we will have enough technical professionals tomorrow, but I am not. We need engineers. I, for one, am not going to trust the same invisible hand that gave us pets.com to provide them.