Are Lower Prices Of Scrap Better Or Worse???

After twenty plus years in the Scrap Game I would say Lower is Better,now after your smirking stops let me give you my take,when I started #2copper was around fifty cents a pound,aluminum .20-.25 wire was .30 that's what I remember,but I also remember that people would leave there scrap / ac units in the back of there shops for me and you know what nobody touched them, almost every day when I went in to work a pile of scrap was left there in front of my door, and that was in Brooklyn New York we never paid for anything.the number of Junkers /Scrapers in my area you could count on one hand,and we all made real good money.We laughed all the way to the mattresses,no banks.I know that times are tough now and these jerks in Washington are not making it any easier on us,people have to eat and will do what ever they can to feed there family's.The lower the prices go the fewer scrapers will be out there,and the better it will be for those that remain,that's my opinion What's Yours??