The cost of cooking a meal isn’t comparable with eating at a restaurant. We should note that a restaurant is different from a fast food joint.
The cost of living is obviously not it was a decade ago. You rightly noted that despite the cost of food, people still eat at restaurants and afford to splurge money on other things. It would be difficult to save enough money to invest in anything cause they obviously aren’t earning enough. Strive to earn more and there would be something left to save after settling expenses.
An average man likely doesn’t strive that hard to significantly increase his income level and that’s probably why he has just enough to eat, pay bills and survive.
The costs we incur to be able to eat at a restaurant will of course be greater than cooking, but with all the busyness that a person has, of course they have to choose to eat at a restaurant or at a fast food place, but if we choose to save money of course we We have to take the time to cook in order to save on our expenses.
Yes, of course the cost of living today is very different from before and if we can't live frugally of course it will be very difficult to have savings or even think about investing and if we can save on our expenses of course we will be able to save from the remaining needs. we have and will also be able to think about investing in our future, but if a man doesn't think about how to get a lot of income, of course they have to be able to reduce their expenses and limit themselves from choosing to spend their income uncontrollably.