"Free market economy"
Glancing through your perceptive post, I read this sentence. (Don't misunderstand, your idea that the riches of the world should only belong to those with the money to purchase them is not great. Most folks should eat dirt, I suppose, because they weren't born wealthy.) Other than that.
"However, a free-market system in America and other nations has made such things far less expensive than they have ever been throughout history."
How come drugs are so much more expensive in the US than elsewhere?
Arf