"For the most part".

Unless you have a miracle David to compete with the big boys and their Goliaths, you'll need an army of the masses who will need to trust you to build your competing alternative system that could outgrow the extant status quo rigged system.

Anything less won't succeed or will simply be folded into their establishment sooner or later.

If you are a legit threat your life will also be at risk. MANY alternative solutions have be crushed across ALL fields of life. I'm sharing my content openly, in part for this reason, among a myriad of others. Another obvious example is copyrights. I won't have an army of lawyers to prevent a corporation from crushing me should they try to rip me off - but I can prove I did it first if I do it openly.