Because y’all shouldn’t fall for this moralistic and anachronistic nonsense. The rentier bourgeoisie controls the servers and data centres (vulgarly called “cloud”) like they did before with the railways, the shipping infrastructure, the airlines, energy, the production and redistribution of oil and gasoline, and even other forms of communications infrastructure.
Reframing the rentier bourgeoisie as some new unique stage of development beyond capitalism (and smuggling in liberal moralisms about “fiefdoms” and “feudal lords”) is just yet another European attempt at reframing the current regressive nature of capitalism as not-capitalism in order to defend the status quo as a “democracy” at risk.
And this author doesn’t even get into Imperialism in his critique.
The value of producing algorythms vs producing servers themselves is hugely overblown, there’s value transfer from one part of the global population to another.
We don’t create value by shopping online, algorythms training by observing our behaviour does not change that.
It’s not, that’s the whole point. The money flows don’t reflect actual value flows, thanks to super exploitation.