- Cloud Fiefs are “digital trading platforms on which buyers and sellers are matched by the algorithms of cloud capital” ([[Varoufakis, Yanis - 2023 - Technofeudalism|237]]). - These fiefs (e.g, Amazon) are **not [[capitalism is an economic system where the means of production are privately owned#^cdd802|markets]]** because buyers are isolated from each other, and sellers are isolated from each other. The algorithm matches buyers and sellers; this is reinforced by our training / reproduction of cloud capital. - Fiefs are [[there are four types of rent under capitalism|rented]] by [[vassal capitalists]].