Artificial intelligence vector illustration of Scientist men building human head with cogwheels and wires. [File Courtesy] There’s a new landlord in town—and it lives in the cloud. If you’ve ever uploaded a video, answered a CAPTCHA, or trained a chatbot by angrily yelling “Speak to a human!”, congratulations. You’ve been doing unpaid labour for your AI overlords. Welcome to techno-feudalism, a term popularised by economist Yanis Varoufakis. In this brave new order, tech giants don’t just sell us products—they extract rent from our very existence. Every click, search, and swipe becomes part of a vast data estate they own. We,…