Stop worrying about a recession. The economy you are trying to save died years ago. We have entered the era of Techno-Feudalism.
If you ask an economist what system we live in, they will tell you it is “Late Stage Capitalism.” They are wrong. Capitalism requires two things: profit derived from production, and markets where buyers and sellers meet freely.
According to the latest strategic assessments of the 2025 global order, both of those things are vanishing. We are witnessing a “mutation” of the global economy into Techno-Feudalism.
In this new reality, you are not a consumer, and you are not a citizen. You are a serf on a digital estate. Here is how the new logic of the world works.
1. The Fiefdom Replaces the Market
The core thesis of Techno-Feudalism, supported by theorists like Yanis Varoufakis and Jodi Dean, is that markets have been replaced by private fiefdoms.
Think about Amazon or the Apple App Store. These are not "markets" in the capitalist sense. They are digital estates owned by a single Lord (Cloud Capital).
• If you sell goods on Amazon, you are not competing in a free market. You are paying a "feudal rent" (access fees, advertising, data extraction) to the Lord for the privilege of trading on his land.
• The Lord controls the algorithm (the law), sees all the data (the surveillance), and takes a cut of every transaction (the tax).
Value is no longer created through profit from making things. It is extracted through rent for allowing you to exist in the digital space.
2. The Serfdom of the State
The most terrifying aspect of this shift isn’t what it does to you; it’s what it has done to your government.
By 2025, the distinction between the “State” and “Big Tech” has inverted. Governments and corporations are now forced to “lease back” their own operational capacity from giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.
This creates a dependency akin to medieval serfdom.
• The US military, the British NHS, and the French tax authority all run on infrastructure owned by private Cloud Capitalists.
• These entities have effectively “privatized governance,” setting labor standards and controlling information flows that used to be the domain of the Nation-State.
In a very real sense, the Prime Minister and the President are merely vassals paying tribute to the CEO.
3. The New Soviets
It is ironic that the ultimate victory of American corporate power looks exactly like the Soviet Union.
Analysts now characterize Big Tech as “the new Soviets” . Why? Because Techno-Feudalism relies on central planning. The algorithm decides what you see, what you buy, and what you believe. It is a command economy dressed up in the aesthetics of Silicon Valley libertarianism.
The “Cloud Lords” have achieved what the Politburo never could: total, real-time behavioral modification of the population, extracted not through the Gulag, but through the smartphone.
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