Цитаты из книги Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

One need not be a radical critic of our society to see that the right to a bit of time each day when one is not for sale has all but vanished. The irony is that the liberal individual was snuffed out neither by fascist Brownshirts nor by Stalinist guards. It was killed off when a new form of capital began to instruct youngsters to do that most liberal of things: be yourself! (And be successful at it!) Of all the behavioural modifications that cloud capital has engineered and monetised, this one is surely its overarching and crowning achievement.

Everyone knew that the US government could confiscate the lot at any time, but no one believed Washington would ever dare to, because such a move would deter anyone from ever stashing their wealth within the US-controlled dollar payments system again.
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It was the first time in capitalist history that a major central bank’s money had been, effectively, confiscated by another central bank.10 Even during the Crimean War of the 1850s, as Russian and British soldiers were slaughtering each other, the Bank of England continued to honour financial commitments to the Czar’s central bank and Russian debtors kept paying their loan instalments to English bankers.

China’s cloudalists acquired a 360-degree view of their users’ social and financial life.
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WeChat users did not have to exit the app to make a payment. While streaming music, scrolling social media, messaging their families, they are able to use the same app to send money to anyone who have downloaded WeChat and opened a yuan account with China’s bank.
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it is becoming worryingly apparent to America’s rulers that China’s cloudalists have already acquired a power that US cloudalists are struggling to emulate: the power stemming from a successful merger of cloud capital and finance – or cloud finance.