$1000 for meat for a year doesn't require "the most privilege". It's certainly not what is stopping millions of people in the US.
It always comes down to the "Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness" in the end. Most of the stuff we are talking about here is nowhere near practically applicable for the majority of the population.
For what it's worth 40 million people i the US are facing eviction because they can't come up with something as essential as rent. This is how deep the social divide has become in the US.