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Nice analogy re some cloud stuff

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Thought I'd share this. Anyone think a general thread might work or would it descend into chaos

mttaggart@infosec.exchange - @SecurityWriter" I'd also add that the money to be made in rent-seeking compute cycles is appealing to those who only think in growth.

Basically all these data centers being built are new horrible apartment buildings, and Microsoft et al are slumlords."
 
That is a textbook example of using an analogy to force a particular conclusion via question-begging.

Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.[1] Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, stifled competition, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality,[2][3] heightened debt levels,[4] risk of growing corruption and cronyism, decreased public trust in institutions, and potential national decline.​
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Instead of explaining how "datacenter as a service" embodies any of those negative characteristics, in its own terms, Our Hero simply says "it's analogous to rent-seeking" and drops the mic.

It's not a nice analogy at all. It's a mean one. Both in the sense of insulting its audience and in the sense of being paltry.
 
Nice but doesn't go far enough.
Datacenter are more like Corporate Towns, since you also depend on the provided bandwidth and network speed - and the owner has total control on who they will let host files or not.
This makes them the Overlords, not just Landlords of your Internet footprint
 
Wudang said:
Thought I'd share this. Anyone think a general thread might work or would it descend into chaos

mttaggart@infosec.exchange - @SecurityWriter" I'd also add that the money to be made in rent-seeking compute cycles is appealing to those who only think in growth.

Basically all these data centers being built are new horrible apartment buildings, and Microsoft et al are slumlords."
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I'm not entirely sure I understand why anybody thinks that remote hosting services are rent seeking or the data centres they use are slums.
 
jeremyp said:
I'm not entirely sure I understand why anybody thinks that remote hosting services are rent seeking or the data centres they use are slums.
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When I think of rent seeking, I don't think of slums. I think of luxury high rises full of million dollar apartments nobody lives in. Somebody's getting paid, but nothing of value has been added to society.
 
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