@GeePawHill my read on the business model is that the explicit goal is to enact digital feudalism, by inserting themselves into every tool of knowledge work or production. The idea is to own all the tools, and then rent them back to us. This is for the obvious benefit of simple rent seeking, and the less obvious benefit that they get to control what kinds of work are even possible to perform. The software equivalent of share cropping.
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