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Everybody should at least know how to cook basic meals. It's an essential survival skill. Being a car mechanic or a professional educator is not the same.
other essential survival skills include:
~100 years ago, most people either know how to do most of these things or had an immediate family member who did. Today, that's no longer true.
It probably would be better if we all still usually knew how to do all these things (at least in my opinion). But we collectively decided that it was more important that most people just know enough to keep themselves and some kids alive between shifts at work.
Just because a bunch of us have the blessing of the ability to cook food doesn't give us license to expect all our fellow citizens to do it when we have actively encouraged them not to need this skill anymore.
I'm lucky that my mom taught me basic sewing repair, and I really wish most humans knew even basic sewing because of how staggeringly wasteful modern fashion is. But most people would call me crazy if I started insisting that everyone should know how to sew and that people who don't are inferior, irresponsible, etc.
Even if they didn't, how likely am I to convince more people to sew if I come out swinging with insults?
Are you seriously advocating that people shouldn't bother to know how to make food for themselves? Because instead of suggesting we bring back home ec, get better wages and be less insulting to people who can't cook, which would ask be improvements to everything, you're saying we should throw in the towel.
I'm not at all saying to throw in the towel. Quite the opposite. I just want people to be more understanding and less judgmental so we don't push people even further away from learning self subsistence habits like cooking.