Yeah, we've moved beyond subsistence. In fact, we've moved so far beyond subsistence that we can put the entire economy on hold for months and no one is in even remote danger of starving.
https://www.hamiltonproject.org/blog/the_covid_19_crisis_has...
It's largely because people—especially the poorest people—have been laid off to protect businesses' balance sheets, and have received a meager attempt at counterbalancing that from the government.
There is absolutely no reason any human needs to starve in the modern world. If we as a society prioritized people's lives and welfare over businesses' profitability—and expressed those priorities consistently through our voting decisions—we could eliminate hunger in America without any kind of serious (or even noticeable) hardship to the rest of us.
like do you actually believe this? just because none of your friends are starving doesn't mean there aren't people that are
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/22/covid-19-...
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759512938/u-s-census-bureau-r...
38 million.
12% of households don't reliably eat
https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/new-data
people are getting evicted en masse soon
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/coronavirus-evictions-...
do you really think "no one" is going starve to death in the US in the coming months? or even that many people aren't?