Re:The Fallacy of Techno-Feudalism
by 0thgen on Saturday May 10, 2025 @09:13AM
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"You're just worshipping the billionaires" is not a good rebuttal to the author's arguments. You haven't addressed
"Try getting a job without LinkedIn. Try buying a phone that doesn't run android or iOS." Your argument here would apply to everything then, why restrict it to "techno"? Try driving a car without buying gas from a small number of oil companies. Try using electricity without going through utility monopolies. Try using a credit card without going through... yada yada.
Does that mean we currently live in oil-gas-electro-feudalism? If you really think that, then your fundamental argument is: 'the social order is the same as it's always been', which just seems unnecessarily reductionist.
The term techno-feudalism is clearly politically loaded rather than empirically descriptive, and I think your response makes that pretty clear.
"Try getting a job without LinkedIn. Try buying a phone that doesn't run android or iOS." Your argument here would apply to everything then, why restrict it to "techno"? Try driving a car without buying gas from a small number of oil companies. Try using electricity without going through utility monopolies. Try using a credit card without going through... yada yada.
Does that mean we currently live in oil-gas-electro-feudalism? If you really think that, then your fundamental argument is: 'the social order is the same as it's always been', which just seems unnecessarily reductionist.
The term techno-feudalism is clearly politically loaded rather than empirically descriptive, and I think your response makes that pretty clear.