You are absolutely correct. This is true. There are comparatively few people who work to provide food and shelter. That said, when I look around me I see massi

You are absolutely correct. This is true. There are comparatively few people who work to provide food and shelter. That said, when I look around me I see massive complexity to accomplish the seeming of a magic porridge pot surplus. I think it may be possible to understate what goes in to producing these things. The food production system requires a whole series of industrialized inputs to work at this level of labor efficiency, so we need to keep those and supporting systems. Food production systems also need food distribution systems, which means ways to harvest, process, package, store, and transport food. This requires its own logistical chains and their supporting systems. Now we're up to including a bunch of heavy industry, some mining, steelmaking, a cross-continental rail system, international shipping, and last mile logistics. We haven't even gone into how much of this is specialized labor requiring significant training - a lot of it - and what it would take to adjust the amount of work per person involved or spread it over more people. We haven't looked at housing, its supply chain(s), the educational systems required to train specialists, health care, or administrative systems. I am in awe of the complexity that goes into making the magic porridge pot work.