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Outside or raw materials, a cell phone, and maybe a car where are you forced to support corporations?
Food, shelter, hygiene prodcuts, clothes, furniture, fucking everything.
Yes, some of these things aren't technically necessary but you did include phone and a car, so I am assuming we're not just talking about base subsistence.
Unless you become a cave hermit or somehow manage to source everything from self employed artisans and cooperatives (and vet their material sources), you will support corporations even if you try to reduce your consumption as much as possible.
Pretty much all industries have been captured by massive corporations at this point, and vetting all companies and their supply lines is literally not possible to do.
Think with your head instead of just saying what feels right for once, please.
I buy my food locally. I buy my clothes local to my state. Furniture is made locally. All my hygiene but my conditioner is local. I generate more electricity than I use. But there you go, that's all corporate
It's just easier to buy corporate. Literally nothing you have stated needs to feed corporations. 100% bullshit.
Where do the local farmers get their tractors and tools? Where does the fabric, dye, looms, sewing machines etc. for clothing come from? Where does the furniture maker buy his tools and who makes them? Are your solar panels homemade? What does that electricity power?
Whether directly or not, some portion of the money we spend will end up in the hands of these corporations, even if it just means you paid the furniture guy for a chair and he used that money to buy his kids mcdonalds. And while it's great that you sound like you're actively trying to live in a sustainable way, I don't think you get to deny that if you're a part of the economy you're still supporting corporations, simply due to the sheer depth and breadth of these companies.
You don't think you can't source cotton directly from farmers and make a shirt by hand? Jesus we really are screwed!
"I can't do it all all I'll do nothing" this thread man 🤣
I'm happy for you that you can afford such a lifestyle.