alt Hacker NewsCan you list a situation where this matters that you know this personally?
Maybe if you end up alone and lost in a huge forest or the Outback, but this is a highly unlikely scenario.
If society falls apart cooking isn’t something you need to be that worried about unless you survive the first few weeks. Getting people to work together with different skills is going to be far more beneficial.
The existential crisis part for me is that no-one (or not enough people) have the skills or knowledge required to do these things. Getting people to work together only works if some people have those skills to begin with.
I also wasn't putting the focus is on cooking, the ability to hunt/gather/grow enough food and keep yourself warm are far more important.
And you are far more optimistic about people than me if you think people working together is the likely scenario here.