They did?! I thought they just had to learn and adapt doing something else eventually during a transition which was not very fast while also enjoying the new, b

They did?! I thought they just had to learn and adapt doing something else eventually during a transition which was not very fast while also enjoying the new, better and cheaper products available to all. Any source for those starvation deaths? I would like to learn more about what prevented them from simply doing what the survivors did.