Users rather than paid employees produce cloud capital outside markets

Evidence

In providing these stories, videos, photos, jokes and movements, it is we who produce and reproduce – outside any market – the stock of cloud capital. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 334

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: ‘the unpaid gig’ — how user-generated content constitutes a new form of outsourced, unwaged labor that Marx’s categories only partially capture.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 334
• XREF: connects to: Cloud capital is physical networked machinery plus unwaged user labor — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 850; Cloud platforms exploit nearly everyone rather than only their employees — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 873; Big Tech turned workers into cloud proles and everyone else into cloud serfs. (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Cloud capital uniquely combines attention-holding, free labour and privatised transaction spaces #corroborates (0.92) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 381
• Cloud capital made humanity work for free or a pittance #expands (0.85) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 444