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False dilemma. There is a state of being between subsistence farming and outsourced meals, and it's characterized by frugality and patience.

• Daishiman 5y ago
  It's perfectly possible to have good meals on the go, as evidenced by the fact that Italians, Spaniards, French and Peruvians can get simple lunch fares with high-quality ingredients and affordable prices, and it's not necessarily about home-cooked meals either.
  • readflaggedcomm 5y ago
    So can I, but I have frugality and patience.
  • angelzen 5y ago
    > “To sum up, I may say that if the taste of our people [in France] for possessing land, and our habit of cultivation on a small scale, have singularly facilitated our progress towards equality, it is probable that the excess of opposing causes will drive the English in the same direction” Alexis de Tocqueville, 1861, cited in https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_12_02_01_choi.pdf https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_12_02_01_choi.pdf That the French (still) have access to good meals (not sure what you have in mind specifically) might have quite a bit to do with a history of small scale farming. That and a climate conducive to small scale farming. It remains to be seen how long this will last. The forces of globalization are rapidly eroding local culture everywhere around the world.