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I have most of my groceries delivered, but the prices are mostly the same. I wouldn't especially say I'm living in unimaginable luxury. But fine, if it helps keeping the American soul calm, oh my, what luxury!
https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/heres-how-much-it-costs-to-have-groceries-delivered-versus-shopping-in-person/
You're probably paying about 10% higher than a middle-range supermarket for the convenience.
Like, they may not advertise a special delivery "fee" but the delivery costs are baked into the costs of the food items.
It just goes to my point that most Americans have the luxury of not being price conscious and not even caring about it.
I think there is a Marxist joke here somewhere about how a person doing an absolutely bullshit job sitting in a Hermann Miller Aeron chair in an air conditioned office snacking on Doritos is not a revolutionary. Life is super cushy for a lot of folks, and it's hard to rebel against something that is this undifficult.
In the developing world, people are struggling for those things they actually need at a basic level.
John Galbriath wrote a book on this, worth a read IMO
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691171654/the-culture-of-contentment
that said the time to rebel is now because somewhere around 2030-2035 ,it will be too late and too many tipping points will have been crossed
which is why we won't solve this, It's contra to how humans behave.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2006923-understand-faulty-thinking-to-tackle-climate-change/
I am not American and the prices in the store are the same as in my delivery. The difference is that I don't get to choose the cheaper option.