Today people work so they can make money to pay other people to do all the things they need to do to live. In many families today both adults in the household work and they spend no time on meal preparation. Consequently, they buy prepared foods at the grocery store.
The prepared foods require a large expenditure of energy. They're made in a factory, shipped in climate controlled trucks, stored in freezers in grocery stores and in the home. The elaborate system and infrastructure requires constant maintenance and energy inputs. Each stage of handling and processing expands the "economy" and the energy required to run it. The "expansion" of the economy was necessary for more skimming by people in New York and London.
The life that many people consider "traditional" today, the 1930s,40s,50s life was more localized, so the supply chain was shorter and far more energy and resource efficient. It also required more human labor to run. Since it was local, multinational corporations were only involved in certain aspects. Banking was local too by law.
The 70's and 80's were when corporations took over the United States and transformed the way people live. They really went after the women and the family to break down localism and to push the population into make work corporate life. It was really a byproduct of mass media and brainwashing in public schools. It was also fueled by easy credit (for corporations).
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