Throughout the history We have had, We have accounted for Our Human energy added into a community/system via money - in whatever form: trade, barter, work exchange, shells, beads, sticks notched and split, coins (metals), bills, or electronic bits. Food has spoiled before exchange of accounting tokens throughout history. The food spoilage at home is not a major addition to the overall waste.
Imagine if We could have all the food for free. We would feed all of Us abundantly as the food is obtained fresh. We have hunger and starvation because good food spoils before sale. We have plenty and now have technology to provide vastly more.
It is not "our reality," so much as it is a function of the systems We have in place. If We work to change the systems, in this post-scarcity world, with technology We now have... We can create vastly better for Humanity.
And about that energy... We have had free energy technology for at least 60 years - and likely closer to 100 years. But the tech is hidden and suppressed, as the addition of free energy would make accounting for Our energy pointless, and money is the only tool to power over Others on a widespread basis that the psychopaths in control have. See My featured video on My YouToilet...er...YouTube channel:
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