Even most doctors, when you get right down to it, live off of the surplus labor of others. Most doctors aren't patching up workers and warriors, or even children.
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Doctors spend a great deal of their time helping and healing people who are unable to contribute materially to the society, if "contribute materially" means "actively work in the so-called primary and secondary sectors of the economy."
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Yet obviously any moral society would consent to have doctors heal people who cannot contribute materially.
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And I mean this is all obvious just me thinking out loud about how societies are organized on a basic level.
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of course, said society would NOT consent to have those doctors perform massive, complex, resource-intensive procedures on the rich while allowing to poor to die from like of antibiotics or insulin or epi-pens, etc.
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and our society, at multiple levels of organization, consents to exactly that. Here's hoping one day humans look back at how the rich (including the internationally rich, i.e., almost all americans) monopolized social gains during this era and find it deplorable.
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