I didn't mean surgery goes away because doctors only do it to get paid. I meant nothing of the sort.

This is what I am saying.

Imagine your world. Except, second generation. Nobody knows anything from before, now it all has to be taught again.

It's simply not possible to learn surgery.

If you wanted to take the YEARS out of your life to learn enough to make a real difference, you'd be dead. Because you have to concentrate on food. You could trade for food, except the only things you own are tools you need to survive. Everything else is just weighing you down.

There's only one way to learn surgery. Pick a partner.

He learns how to get food, you learn how to perform surgery. But there's more! You should probably bring on another for protection against the thieves. Sure, everyone's all friends in the New Age, but not EVERYONE.

And maybe another for entertainment. And another for clothes, maybe. And, maybe you should make a permanent home. It's not always easy finding or building shelter when everyone else is also drifting around...

You see where I'm going with this? All you're talking about doing is going back a few hundred years, except not really. Because we'd all know how easy we could have it. And we'd snap right back, once we re-learned EVERYONE DOESN'T ALWAYS WANT TO SHARE EVERYTHING.