How willing are you to farm for your own food, or let someone else decide what's worth eating? How willing are you to order other people what to do without taking those orders yourself? Do you think that you're going to be the one in charge in a world where someone gets to decide we have enough different kinds of cereal? There are places where you can live like that right now, most people don't like them.
And if you think I'm whatever cultural archetype you hate that keeps things this way, just know that my life sucks too and I'm giving up a lot to just try to make it better for other people instead of moseying along hating what I do and how powerless I am. But pretty quickly you realize people hate that even more than they hate their own suffering, nothing you do will ever be good enough for them because they just want to be miserable and make it someone else's fault - if they take any responsibility for it, they have to admit that it's not going to just change for them.
Nothing is actually stopping you from making your own music, nobody has to listen to it though, unless you make them. But it's your only choice if you don't like the music you have already. Just get ready for people to tell you they don't like it.
Of course there are places like that now; if you're an American, you're living in one. "Consumer choice" didn't save us, because everyone made the same choices and all of the corporations behind those choices merged and repackaged their all-too-similar products with slightly different branding.
But, as you say, that's not because people don't want choice. It's because the choice was often between "safe and decent and expensive" and "unhealthy or dangerous but cheap" and sometimes even "unhealthy or dangerous and also expensive." The choice wasn't meaningful.
I live in an apartment, but I've got a few food plants on my deck. People do what they can within a broken system driven by the profit motive (read: exploitation), but it IS a system and it IS broken, and that's something that no amount of advocating for "consumer choice" or "working hard" within the broken system will change. And you bet your ass that I'd love to see what we have get replaced with one with fewer "choices", where the remainder are actually good ones.
Maybe stop complaining yourself and make that happen. As for me, I'm getting ready to harvest my sweet potatoes and draw a few storyboards. Hopefully one day the world will catch up to the fact that I don't actually have to do the former because we produce more than enough industrially, and that people who can do the latter are a badge of honor for our objective prosperity, and not a burden.
And if you think I'm whatever cultural archetype you hate that keeps things this way, just know that my life sucks too and I'm giving up a lot to just try to make it better for other people instead of moseying along hating what I do and how powerless I am. But pretty quickly you realize people hate that even more than they hate their own suffering, nothing you do will ever be good enough for them because they just want to be miserable and make it someone else's fault - if they take any responsibility for it, they have to admit that it's not going to just change for them.
Nothing is actually stopping you from making your own music, nobody has to listen to it though, unless you make them. But it's your only choice if you don't like the music you have already. Just get ready for people to tell you they don't like it.