Nobody is exercising hierarchical authority in those situations. Prioritizing feeding yourself over feeding others is fine. Your backyard garden is your personal property.
In the real world, most food is grown at a large scale. Producing massive quantities of food and withholding it from your community would be considered a form of hierarchical authority. The means of production belong to all.
In the sketch, where they’re talking about “everyone giving him a bit of their food” which implies that each of them is growing it themselves. There’s nothing to suggest that any one person is growing massive amounts of food that they’re withholding from anyone else, which means that nobody is “exercising hierarchal authority” over anyone else.
Nobody is exercising hierarchical authority in those situations. Prioritizing feeding yourself over feeding others is fine. Your backyard garden is your personal property.
In the real world, most food is grown at a large scale. Producing massive quantities of food and withholding it from your community would be considered a form of hierarchical authority. The means of production belong to all.
In the sketch, where they’re talking about “everyone giving him a bit of their food” which implies that each of them is growing it themselves. There’s nothing to suggest that any one person is growing massive amounts of food that they’re withholding from anyone else, which means that nobody is “exercising hierarchal authority” over anyone else.
In that case, you are correct.