One stick is easily broken. One bundle of sticks is less easily so. The more one expands one's scope, the stronger one can be both individually and collectively. So-called "independent" people simply rely on others' labor either through coercion or through mutual aid networks which, when sufficiently expansive and enmeshed, allow one person to meet their needs through many small favours instead of a few big ones. Yet these many small favours give more help overall.
Even the mythical American hermits who retired to "unspoiled nature" (genocided of humans) to write poetry and philosophy relied on the labour of "servant"-class people or "wife"-class people, rendered invisible. They were not truly alone or independent. They only viewed themselves as such because they did not perceive these others as human people worthy of such regard.
Unionise. Unionise. Unionise, now! Right now! Even if you are the first to make it! Unionise!