&gt; <i>It&#x27;s just not true that you need a huge variety of stuff for over $1,000 to bake bread. Think about it. The history of bread goes back thirty thousand years.</i><p>&quot;You don&#x27;t need a guitar to make music, because people once made music by banging two sticks together&quot;. I mean, the GP even specifically mentioned <i>pie</i> tins, <i>cake</i> containers, <i>cupcake</i> trays, and you retort with &quot;baking is nothing but bread&quot;? &quot;You don&#x27;t need stuff, because a simplified subset of what you want to do can be done without stuff&quot;? Hell, you don&#x27;t even <i>need</i> a hammer to drive a nail, but it&#x27;s a <i>lot</i> more efficient if you have one.<p>It&#x27;s doubly weird that you invoke how people ran 100k years ago, and then say &quot;all you need are shoes&quot;. Nope - it&#x27;s &quot;no footwear&quot;. It&#x27;s perfectly doable - I had an anarchist friend who spent several years without wearing shoes (excluding when he had to - boots for protection when motorcycle riding). You should ditch the shoes in your example, for both running and walking, as shoes are just as unnecessary to human locomotion as $1k of kitchenware is to baking. There&#x27;s even a subgenre of running that is specifically about no shoes; I&#x27;m not aware of a subgenre of baking that is specifically about making cakes with no mixer.