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That's subsistence living. No one wants to go back to that. Nor is anyone stopping you from living that way. Land is cheap in the middle of nowhere. Communes exist everywhere.
A communal cafeteria isn't what people do when "going out". If it was what people wanted, there would be more cafeterias and fewer restaurants.
It's easy to think that everyone is sheep except for yourself. I've now come to believe that consumerism is fundamental to human nature, not advertising changing humans. The proof is thousands of years of pre capitalism artifacts from archeology sites. People have always liked unnecessary "stuff". People have always liked fashion and trends. People are going to be rampant consumers even if advertising and marketing were stopped tomorrow. It's their nature.