# Cloud margins are a permanent invisible tax

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-09-29
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - September 28th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:07:12 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhs18DcjSKo&t=432s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2022-09-29-cloud-margins-are-a-permanent-invisible-tax-htx3/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Cloud margins are a permanent invisible tax," Akash Weekly - September 28th 2022 (Akash Network), 29 Sept 2022, 00:07:12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhs18DcjSKo&t=432s

## Quote — verbatim

> Over 50 percent, on average, of all the money you pay to online services — like Netflix or the service fees to Uber Eats — 50% of that margin really goes to a cloud provider.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Citing Anil Murty's Messari Mainnet talk; Greg follows at [00:07:57] with "you end up having a permanent invisible tax for everything you do online being paid to one of these large providers."