Counterpoint: vast majority is not making those choices, and if you insist on defying the mainstream, you gradually become separated from human society.

This isn't solvable through individual choice. It's a coordination problem - and coordination problems are what underlies every actually hard problem that humanity is struggling with. War, poverty, authoritarian regimes, corporate overreach, environmental destruction, climate change - all could be solvable though choices like you describe, but in practice are not, because humans can't coordinate at scale.

Relevant search term: "meditations on Moloch".