I can tell you when I was growing up in the 40’s and 50’s we did what we had to to eat..
One Uncle and Aunt had a poultry farm, another Uncle and Aunt raised crops for the cannery, and a dairy farm on top of that....
All my Aunts would get together and can and bottle and make jellies and jams, the Uncles would kill beef, pig and chickens and turkeys and we would all divide it..
On top of the all that, everyone worked, you were not allowed any t.v. nor did you have time to ‘walk the streets’ you were busy and it didn’t hurt me one bit..
We need to go back to that life, even tho my youngest Grandson wouldn’t like it, no computer, IPad and cell phone, or T V ...
thiose were the days- sure it was tough, but we were close as families, everyone working together just to make it- I was at the tail end of the extreme poverty era- before moving all the way up into higher end poverty- but we got by, and we had lots of fun doing so and were really quite fit and lean, thanks to the hard work needed to keep ourselves alive (the chords of wood we cut split, stacked, and fed the winter furnace with were simply countless by now- mountains of wood-literally- lol we’d play ‘king of the hill’ by claiming top of the wood pile)
Anyways- today we all just sit around glued to TV, Cell phone, Nintendo, Xbox, etc- and hardly anyone talks to each other except during commercials or while waiting for their cell phone battery to recharge