There are some points speaking against this (in my opinion):
If we change this and implement this proposal, tomorrow there will be the suggestion to have a NPC for fruit, as this would be the best solution, to push the prices for say apples

Btw: I would like to have a NPC for TVs
There is another thread that it is too hard to become a manager here... it will become much harder if steel prices jump to a price 3 times higher than now.
And in my opinion steel producers can easily push prices: research and sell steel to the furniture, electronics and cars industry (did not look up now whether there are more industries which need steel). At the moment they can produce with q0 steel from the NPC, but later on the average quality will go up and then they need higher steel (I only now the production of wardrobes, and this is not a small amount of steel you need there).
The steel production is a branch like any other branch: you have to plan whether you can earn enough money by producing steel or maybe by producing another product from the mines/ factories. But this is a thing anybody has to do here...
