I agree that food preparation has opportunity costs but I think we are arguing semantics here . If a food item costs 5 $ at the shop and preparation has a 5 $ opportunity cost then for all intents and purposes the item is really worth 10 $. It ' s probably true that people waste more food than gasoline . But I think we can agree that people will still occasionally waste electrity and gasoline . The total amount of money wasted doesn ' t even matter . The people in this video get very upset about wasting some bread that ' s essentially worthlessWJD 2 Wn 0 f 8 I . This is what I ' m talking about . Do you think they ' d be just as upset about the waste of a negligible amount of electricity ? <| sep |> Capitalists attack and coopt or destroy alternatives .