It's always surprising to me that so few people seem to notice that tech platforms, where a lot of human activity is organized on now, to a large extent have completely left behind market mechanisms, instead relying on algorithmic prediction and planning, and replacing profit generation with financialization by either the state or a sort of aristocracy.

I think this is directly visible in the different generations of tech companies. Whereas Apple and Microsoft started out as companies that relied on selling units of products at a surplus for profit and had to pay labour expenses in the form of wages to a large base of salaried employees, the modern VC funded generation of platform firms does no such thing, rather you have VC investors finance the activity of platforms who don't generate profits at times for decades, and derive value directly from the experience of their users outside of any exchange of money, and the value is largely being generated by an unpaid base of workers who are not even in any employment relationship.