Re: Place your bets...
"It's a difficult path but not impossible"
I disagree I think it is impossible. You may be able to use some products not produced by large organisations but not all.
If you drive you likely own a car made by a large organisation unless you bought some expensive custom sports car and even then parts of it will have come from a major car manufacturer. Your computer Intel inside? White goods probable from a major organisation and even when you buy from what looks like a smaller company turns out they are owned by a large organisation.
Then utilities like water, electricity, phone network, etc, good luck finding one that if not supplied by a large organisation, the supplier is not ultimately owned by a large organisation.