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False analogy. You can choose not to go to a restaurant if you don't want to pay the markup. You cannot choose not to work if you enjoy not starving.

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Yes you can. You just have to adjust your expectations.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Freeganism

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Ah, so all you have to do is be willing to live like a scavenger and adjust to a third-world standard of living.

Well that seems reasonable.

Some people choose to do so, because it makes them happy. Does that make them foolish? If so, what does that say about our economic relationship with the people who actually live in the third world?

Not at all. The analogy was completed with the reference to cooking at the end. If you are not willing to cook for yourself and have no one to cook for you, you cannot avoid going to a restaurant. You'll die of starvation! If, however, you are willing to cook for yourself, as with work, your options are nearly limitless.

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