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I don't get your medical cost analysis. I'm guessing you are saying that the fixed costs of funding a cure for a disease are much higher than the marginal benefit to any one customer. But in a market society people do invest in such assets, one group of people build something and then charge everyone else who wants to use it a fee - eg how many of the people who visit Disneyland would pay for the entire park to be built?

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Is it really a matter of status? I've encountered situations where the neighbours had no respect for my need to sleep, and I am not unique. I mostly eat good food because I don't buy the other sort and can cook. This has been true throughout my adult life.

How good is the food and respect for need to sleep in the military? How about when it was a conscription military? I think it's a matter of how easily you can switch to other options, not how low or high status you are.

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