On the other hand, this is necessary since CCP focused all their development efforts on promoting and necessitating capital use (citadels, new ratting, camping, response fleets, etc). Somehow, you have to make the money to be able to afford them.
The idea is not original, though. Someone already suggested increased NPC aggro on fighters over time a while ago. That makes anom running a bit slower; it costs people more fighters, which increases industry and market activity (by extension more isk sunk in taxes); and it is very straining on the pilots as they need to pay attention to their fighters continuously.
There it is: