I requires multiple people to be successful at sustenance. There's a reason humans in history have large groups of families and many children bunched into a community (tribe!) to work together. The same is true today. Everything takes time or money. So if you require more than 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to upkeep and grow your food supply or craft goods -- you need more people working on it or you pay the difference.

Sarah Taber might offer some more context on this too: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/america-loves-the-id...