> across the rent-seekers' vast data centers why not go further and call it "neo-feudalism"? The infrastructure providers are the territorial lords that contro

> across the rent-seekers' vast data centers why not go further and call it "neo-feudalism"? The infrastructure providers are the territorial lords that control the arable land, the aristocracy of the digital world. Corporations that rent this infrastructure to build services on it are their vassals. They may claim to be freemen or nobility as they pay for their fief in money not in services and allegiance, but most of them are ministeriales that can't just move elsewhere without significant risk to business continuity (some can, like a oil mega-corp that just rents some IT infra). Lastly we have the cloud engineers, the serfs at the bottom of the pyramid, who work the land they don't own and have to give part of the profits of their work to the upper class in exchange for the opportunity to make a living on their infrastructure.