muchymozzarella:

I love love love the “fuck capitalism make your own cheaper high quality food” posts that teach you to make things like homemade bread or cheese or butter or such

BUT they seem to miss out on a very important detail that I feel like they’re not taking into account when talking of these cheaper alternatives. 

THE LUXURY OF TIME. 

A lot of people who are hovering closer to the poverty line or are simply not rich do not have the luxury of time to make their own fresh food no matter how much cheaper it might be. 

Maybe it’d be a nice Sunday project to try out, but the truth is that capitalism is a self-sustaining monster and will make itself necessary to you as a person by taking away your time forcing you to earn money and then give you cheap enough alternatives to feed you when you have no time to feed yourself. 

It’s certainly not BAD to learn these skills. It’s great and I love them. But they’re not particularly sustainable unless you have all the time in the world to spare.

This is an excellent point.