Total Capitalism, Not Technofeudalism

Big Tech’s dominance, data enclosure, and surveillance may be an intensification of capitalist control rather than a reversion to feudal relations. Calling it 'feudal' obscures rent extraction, state–market interlock, and competition policy levers that still operate within capitalism. — Labels shape remedies—misnaming the system risks pursuing symbolic critiques over antitrust, labor, and institutional reforms that actually bite.