[familyop]

"I can get fast food or a salad bar box for around $5. If I tried to cook the equivalent at home, it would cost $20,..."

Technically inclined, working class people can buy and prepare three nutritious meals for about $3.50 per person per day (fuel for retrieving groceries included). Those who are technically inclined and produce their own food and equipment on a micro scale can eat for less than that.

That's conservatism.

We can make or build anything from natural resources. For those who currently live so comfortably and cannot provide for themselves, the default process is continuing. The end of the regime of recirculating debt is coming.

[Born to Conserve]

What about “equivalent” do you not understand? I could live on weeds and insects for free if I wanted to.