One of the moments in Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis where I had an epiphany was when he talks about how you can know you are talking to somebody whose brain has been captured completely by the cloud feudalists: they talk about things like Amazon, for example, like those platforms are The Market, and when you point out that Amazon is nothing like an actual market, and it is in fact the opposite of The Market, they get mad at you and refuse to consider it even possible that you’re not some kind of dangerous loon.

This is the cultural hegemony that we are pressed most urgently to overthrow.

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It's a monopsony! In effect.
It’s both a monopsony and monopoly. Just try operating practically any kind of business without paying for something either provided directly by Amazon or sold through some zero margin no profits middleman who has to buy it from Amazon.

Amazon collects its rent from everyone one way or another.
my beloved employer has over the years put more and more effort into giving me training in not saying "monopoly" and words of that nature when speaking about the company.



like I ever speak about the company to anyone, or in any context, where that'd actually matter.
We play a game them and me. They send me alerts about overdue training that I must urgently attend, and I assiduously avoid even opening my email to evade the possibility that I might find out about them.