You may have paid for your brass as loaded ammo way back when unless you got it as a bag of unprimed brass.  Nothing is diiferent for the new guys.  They pay the going rate for their initial feed stock the same as you did then and I did twelve years ago.  The only difference is the inflation of the money supply causing perceived higher prices.  At some point, the decision will be made by them to reload or continue to pay up.

I preach the gospel of Saving Brass by <fill in the blank with your favorite reloader> to every Krag shooter.  Heck, I tell everyone to save their brass even if they are not reloading at the moment because they might at some time in the future.