Analysis
This morning I was speaking with a gentleman who lives in New York City. He is highly trained. He has a good job. He is professionally ambitious. But, he says, these days he is struggling to afford food. After the high expense of rent and transportation, along with all the other strange ways the city comes after your wallet, he can no longer afford restaurants. Even street food is straining his budget.
So he has started watching YouTube videos on cooking basics, and he’s on a constant lookout for cheap meat and vegetables. Forget going out with friends, and even holding a small house party. It’s no longer affordable. Wine and beer? Forget it. He wonders how much worse it can get. Will he next be foraging for food along highways?…