Money Food and Culture

Having been raised by depression era parents, the urge to turn out lights and conserve about everything is virtually instinctual.

People not raised by depression era parents have a different paradigm that they operate from. The voice in the back of their head isn't whispering "save for a rainy day". Then these kids have had kids and they want to go out to eat, when they do not eat at home it's usually processed partially or fully prepared food. 

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but home ec classes, shop classes and history as it was should be focused on in our institutionalized neural programming facilities called schools.