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The point of the passage isn't that you don't need food or clothes to live. The point is that worrying about the future is a distraction from the present, and that focusing on your temporal needs is a distraction from spiritual health. It's a message about the pointlessness of selfishness and greed.
Also, elsewhere it's stated that the span of a man's life is much shorter than 300 years. After a certain time, the prostate puffs up and kills us. So trying to live to 300 is a futile distraction anyway.
But in bible they were many peoples lived more than 200 years by praising and following god. Before jesus christ were born.
But in reality, there's no actual evidence of that, or that it was/is ever even possible.
In bible it states that many individuals lived a long life.
The Bible is not a very solid primary source document.