"Money doesn't buy happiness" was first coined when people could afford a house with an average income. We're starving and that one time our grandparents over-ate at a buffet is being shoved down our throats.
Snap/ebt, local food and clothes closets, WIC, feeding america has a lot of helpful links, a lof christian churches have a shared meal on sundays that are open to anyone.
It was a metaphorical starving Jake, we're not really being punished for the time our grandparents went to a buffet. Thank you for your sincerity though god bless.