[beardedwizard]

I can see your point. What I was hoping to highlight is slightly different which can be illustrated through your comment on growing your own food - you need the privilege of both time and space to even do that. Lacking both you may be forced to choose something that harms your long term interests like shopping at Walmart and putting local grocers you can't afford out of business.

A good example of this is an urban single parent of multiple kids, time and space are likely very scarce and choices are limited.