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"Food tastes just as good,"

Actually, it doesn't. There is always a reason people pay a lot of money for things. A good two hundred dollar bottle of wine is worth the money, otherwise they wouldn't sell a drop.
There is a reason that a three star restaurant can charge 800 bucks for a dinner for two. If it wasn't worth it, they would go out of business.
That is how the free market system works. Darwin at his finest.