I think that characterization of tech relationships as feudal is correct. Luckily the ideology that solves all these tech related problems already exists and it is manifested in tangible products that one can use to escape this feudal relationship. If you apply their ideas/solutions to digital world you solve all the problems mentioned in the article that are connected to digital life.

“Drawing from libertarian economist Tyler Cowen’s emphasis on the permanence of extreme inequality in the global, automated economy, the conservative geographer Joel Kotkin envisions the US future as mass serfdom. A property-less underclass will survive by servicing the needs of high earners as personal assistants, trainers, child-minders, cooks, cleaners, et cetera.”

That’s… just… Capitalism… ?