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According to Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis, cloud capital is a new type of physical and digital machinery—such as server farms, fiber-optic cables, and algorithms—that does not produce traditional goods. Instead, it shapes human behavior and extracts "cloud rent," which he argues has replaced traditional capitalism with a system of technofeudalism.

Amazon, Google, FB, Apple, Microsoft have built monopolies to extract rents from everyone.



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