But we, at least in western society, want much more than just food. Even assuming that zero food waste is realistic.
Land is pretty cheap, except when you want to live in a city, especially big. Which is what most people want.
Sunlight is free, solar panel manufacturing and maintenance is not.
Pirates watch things for free, but the people that pay fund the production.
Most expensive things are expensive because they require labor, which is expensive. And people tend to actually want expensive things, even if they don't strictly require them - either as a status symbol, or just to make their life easier (a dishwasher or a vacuum cleaner is not required to live, but most people can't imagine living without one).
Simply put, I think you either greatly oversimplify the problem and handwave the problem by just blaming "billionaires" for everything, or I don't understand your point properly.
Land is pretty cheap, except when you want to live in a city, especially big. Which is what most people want.
Sunlight is free, solar panel manufacturing and maintenance is not.
Pirates watch things for free, but the people that pay fund the production.
Most expensive things are expensive because they require labor, which is expensive. And people tend to actually want expensive things, even if they don't strictly require them - either as a status symbol, or just to make their life easier (a dishwasher or a vacuum cleaner is not required to live, but most people can't imagine living without one).
Simply put, I think you either greatly oversimplify the problem and handwave the problem by just blaming "billionaires" for everything, or I don't understand your point properly.