In some ways you can choose to participate less, you could always go work for a small business somewhere instead of the corporations. There's only so much room

In some ways you can choose to participate less, you could always go work for a small business somewhere instead of the corporations. There's only so much room for high-flying meta-commentary when you're providing value directly to the people in front of you. I kind of picked half-way, I try and find small software businesses that are profitable and working on real world problems. Small as in 5-10 employees. Ecommerce has a lot of small business, grass-roots opportunities still, since commerce is such a core value of any society. Pays less, but I feel better.