Individuals make art, and sometimes we let companies profit from that. But I only question the dogma that posits that large companies control our lives, threaten us all, and try to stamp out all that is good. It's overly simplistic. I had sort of an online discussion with a guy who lamented the state of publishing, claiming that good books weren't getting published by the big guys, etc. Not all that often.
Small publishers publish small books, and big publishers publish big ones.
And sometimes big publishers take big risks on weird books. Arthur Bradford wrote a collection of stories about people who interact in strange ways with dogs and slugs and other animals, and Random House is publishing it. Paul Collins wrote a collection of articles about obscure and failed inventors throughout history, and St. Martin's is putting it out. Both are books of dubious commercial appeal, but they're good books, and the companies were able to buy them because they have deep pockets with which to take risks. So it's nuanced.