• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    More broadly about companies not producing things but extracting “rent” from others by controlling a marketplace all others have to go through. The former economist in residence is promoting a new book he wrote, which I suppose I would have to read to fully understand his argument. The little bit I read in the article has not exactly convinced me, but more from the part that other companies he mentions like Apple and Amazon also produce products.

    • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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      3 months ago

      I’ve read the book and I found it okay, but I read it not long after Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism, which I think tried to explain many of the same things that Technofeudalism does, but I feel Zuboff’s take feels more fitting (though the two models aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive)