what i have found sorgs, is that the people that demand humanity learn to do with less,and go back to a simple sharing life--these people do not intens to man the hoes themselves in a constant back breaking peasant lifestyle.
the important job of going to meetings and deciding how to ration out to the deserving the daily serve of gruel,that is the job for the good and great.
look at the thirld world,the big men sit in the shade and talk about the big issues, and the women and peasants are locked in the cycle of human powered food production.
that is what industrial food production has done,in the greatest enabler of human freedom,chemicals and diesel have let one labour unit do the work of hundreds,and those hundreds can become educated skilled and productive .