How do poor people have less time to cook than well off people? We all work the same hours. No, we don't all work the same hours. Maybe you're one of those hac

How do poor people have less time to cook than well off people? We all work the same hours. No, we don't all work the same hours. Maybe you're one of those hackers who works 80-hour weeks by choice, but even then, there's a big difference between working 80 hours because you can, and needing to work 60-80 hours at 2 or 3 different minimum-wage jobs (unlike most people) to make enough to get by. But not all poor people are like that, so what about the ones who have jobs with regular full-time hours, or less than full-time? Well, a lot of their time might be spent looking for another job, or some other way to supplement their income, that you, with your good income, don't have to worry about. That's time they can't spend cooking or thinking about how to cook well. And if they can't afford a car? Walking to whatever job they have, which you apparently think would be an unadulterated good for them, probably takes a lot longer than driving would- less time to cook or eat well. And in bad weather it may be impossible, meaning that they have to take public transportation, because that's all they can afford right now, even though it's more expensive that owning a car in the long run- again, less money they can spend on food, and still less time than if they had their own vehicle. And add to all of that the psychological toll of knowing that you in poverty and exercising the willpower to deal with all of the above problems and others that come with poverty, and it's freakin' hard to find both the time and mental energy to figure out how to eat both healthy and cheap.