well, is science truly egalitarian? At the purest form yes, it will work for everyone - but not everyone can afford to buy technology or medicine or lessons to explain how these things work. So while science is egalitarian, it is facilitated by technology, which isn't egalitarian. So I guess that's what I was thinking last night - sure, magic would be egalitarian, but you have to have some facilitator - a wand, lessons etc - in order to use it, just like technology in the real world.