I'm going to guess that yours will be an unpopular opinion with anyone too young to have heard about the Depression directly from someone who was there. As a child of parents who went through it (albeit as children themselves at the time), I've also gone without on many occasions, and would likely do just about anything I had to/could do to avoid taking something like SNAP (which doesn't exist where I live). But these are different times, and people today have different ideas (about many things).
And wow, had no idea that food spending in the US was such a low percentage of the total income. Of course, it all depends on what *kind* of food people are buying with that money. . . .
I'm going to guess that yours will be an unpopular opinion with anyone too young to have heard about the Depression directly from someone who was there. As a child of parents who went through it (albeit as children themselves at the time), I've also gone without on many occasions, and would likely do just about anything I had to/could do to avoid taking something like SNAP (which doesn't exist where I live). But these are different times, and people today have different ideas (about many things).
And wow, had no idea that food spending in the US was such a low percentage of the total income. Of course, it all depends on what *kind* of food people are buying with that money. . . .