Your acting like this is new, the poor have always been crapped on. It was common for wet nurses babies to die in the 18th and 19th century. A mother can make enough milk for 2 babies, but the wealthy who hired wet nurses didn't want poor babies around their precious rich babies.

Heartbreaking: https://daily.jstor.org/lifesaving-horrifying-history-wet-nu...

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