Yes, the system is very insidious.
Every choice they give you moves you towards the cattle cars.
Either, get in the car, or get turned out into the cold.
Very freedom. /S

The trick will be to set yourself up to survive using as little from their system as possible, or extracting as much as possible and putting it into a parallel economy not theirs.
Buy local, sell where the customers are.

This book, and this book, address the ways out, but this book does it in more worker oriented language.
Kropotkin was a russian prince that turned his back on privilege because he thought the serfs got a bum deal.
Berkman was more an average joe with a passion for freedom.

If you need things to do, in order to set up this parallel economy, this link has 1000's of pages of homemade things and some videos, too.