How Capitalism Becomes Feudalism (Severance and Technofeudalism)

As commerce transforms around the new rent-extracting digital fiefdoms, algorithms and AI become a way to transform skilled labor into machine-learning piecework. In Severance, technology is used to "sever" people's working selves from their actual selves, creating the perfect, dehumanized work force.
Corrections:
* In this video I mistakenly spell Yanis Varoufakis' name "Varifakis"
* I say 8 hour work week when I mean 8 hour work day
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