technofeudalist means relating to technofeudalism. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 95 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TECHNOFEUDALIST — [Adjective] Relating to a socio-economic system in which a small number of technology platforms exert feudal-like control over data, digital infrastructure, and markets. From techno- (a combining form relating to technology or technique) + feudalist (one who supports or advocates feudalism, a medieval system of land tenure and service). Unlike 'technocratic' (which implies governance by a disinterested expert class) or 'neoliberal' (which champions the fiction of frictionless markets), 'technofeudalist' describes a realm of digital vassalage where we are the productive serfs, our data the harvested crop, and the cloud our rented, inescapable demesne. It is the algorithmic levy a driver pays for the privilege of a map, the intellectual sovereignty ceded in a terms-of-service scroll, and the quiet, perpetual rent extracted from every click and search—a silent enclosure of the virtual commons, where we build our lives on digital land we do not own.
adj
- Relating to technofeudalism.“Zuboff and her followers in the technofeudalist current believe these companies — principally Google, then Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon — have turned the slippery slope of digital surveillance into a hamster wheel, a new self-perpetuating system of exploitation.”
noun
- An advocate, practitioner, or theorist of technofeudalism.“Technofeudalists have a bad habit of repeating the industry’s self-promotional puffery.”