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Technology creates fiefdoms where rentiers extract value from the rest of us. But I’m not losing hope
Don't blame technology; blame capitalism. Technology could equally well be used to benefit everyone, but doing that doesn't vastly increase the personal wealth of the already wealthy.
This is exactly it. Free Open Source Software aims to benefit everyone, but the downside is that it has mostly benefited private corporations who leech off of the free labor of the FOSS community. Capitalism ruins fucking everything.
You’re right, of course. The end result of capitalism is necessarily feudalism - capitalism doesn’t make universally efficient markets. It makes markets that are efficient for the winners. I should have said technology companies and not technology as a whole
As I like to say, capitalism is just feudalism with extra steps.