&gt; If you can&#x27;t extract enough value from society so that you can spare a few tens of thousands of dollars to cure yourself<p>Fixed. I also generally feel casual disregard towards human life and suffering as long as the human in question is not me, but lets call things with their real names.<p>With a price of drug per year being twice the average income in the richest country in the world - that creates impossible situation by definition for half of its populace.<p>Also value provided is not always correlated with value extracted - a janitor for a modest fee keeps my house clean. A hedge fund manager ruins the global economy just when I must enter my prime growing years in earnings and make sure I am at a disadvantage at both the cohort before and after me.<p>Which of those two lives is more valuable to me?