This is why markets spring up in societies that developed past mere survival of subsistence farming or hunting. The society of Germany is way past that phase, just in case.
Look at the food market. The food market is extremely close to a competitive, fully capitalistic free market.
Do food sellers monopolize the market and charge extremely high prices because food is necessary for survival? No, they don't. Because the free market would force them out of business.
The current free market for food has a variety of different products, from a variety of sellers, all for a very reasonable cost.
This is especially true when you compare it to NON free market industries like housing, where much of the problems are caused by the government limiting supply.
Agriculture and farming is one of the most subsidised industries in western world. Governments need to subsidise local agriculture as it cannot compete with third world countries and it is a matter of national security to be able to feed your population in case of a conflict, for example. This is a very poor example of capitalism and free market as it's super regulated.
This just shows you have no idea about the food market.
Farming is heavily subsidized in first world countries because local farmers would be outcompeted by cheap imports in a free market. Governments subsidize their farms so that they can compete with the imports because it is extremely important for a country to be able to feed its own population if outside supply suddenly disappears.
This is actually an example of why totally free markets would be disastrous. Imagine for a moment that we let many of the local farms die to the outside competetion and a natural disaster severely reduces supply. You can't just spin up millions of acres of crops and have them ready before people begin to starve. Governments must subsidize as a form of insurance spending. You have to keep the machine running artifically for when you need it. The free market would kill this "inefficiency" for short term gain with potentially disastrous results.
