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I myself do know how to cook because I've previously worked in kitchens. Some people choose to not subject themselves to that environment and that's their choice, not that it's necessary to work in kitchens.
Learning things takes time, lots of time, and if you really screw up something cooking, you've wasted ingredients and therefore money that one may not be able to afford to waste during a learning process. Then we consider that a lot of people (in the US specifically) have to work 2 jobs to not go homeless, further cutting their time to learn things. When you're in poverty, it's not just money that you're short on, it's time too which is a valuable commodity that a lot of people take for granted.
Think of the larger picture before you go on talking about things you don't understand.
If solving these issues was as easy as "just do it" don't you think we wouldn't be facing all these issues in America?
"Just stop being poor"
That's horseshit. People have been cooking for themselves for fucking centuries. it's not that hard to learn or do. Not does it have to take much time.