I know - the extreme majority of them are in rural areas where you'd have to drive a couple hours to get to a grocery store. My MIL lives in one.

Guess how they get most food? All that super-cheap rural land.

Are you suggesting that impoverished people with low income jobs and extreme hours should spend some of their missing time … farming?

It's an observation, not a suggestion. That's literally how many low-income (not impoverished) people live in rural areas. They grow (and hunt) some food at home but not enough to be self-sufficient, and also have a regular job. Sometimes those jobs involve working long hours at peak times. This is a pretty normal lifestyle.

Yes. A garden is a healthy and productive way to spend your free time. If you have land, EVERYONE should be growing some food.

What are you suggesting they do instead? Scroll tiktok?

>and extreme hours

This is not the problem in rural communities.

The most famously true thing about rural areas is that they’re all exactly the same and the people in them experience identical struggles.

Ah, so that’s how you know they’re all short on time