Also, peer review is not something people go through for the joy of it. Academia and many corporations will literally not hire or promote you unless you go through it. Publishing and conference entities will not publicize your finding unless you go through it and historically without the internet that was the only real way to get publicity. In other words corporate power structures are forcing you to play the game or they will effectively block you from being able to do science professionally. So that seems a pretty poor example of non-corporate power structures.