Techno-feudalism
The argument that digital platforms have replaced markets with rent-extracting fiefdoms, so that profit gives way to rent and users stand to platforms as serfs to lords.
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Checked 19 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
Definition checked against the interview the essay cites.
- Yanis Varoufakis on What Comes After Capitalism
Platforms replacing markets with cloud fiefdoms and profits with rents.
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- Varoufakis popularised the term in Technofeudalism (2023), which is not catalogued; earlier uses by others mean coined_by is left empty.
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Associated with Yanis Varoufakis. The essay uses it as the critics' account of where neo-technocracy leads.
In the essays
- Neo-Technocracy: Same Dream, Bigger Budget
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- Yanis Varoufakis on What Comes After Capitalism
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