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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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.