Everyone pays an invisible cloud tax
How Akash Network is Democratizing Access to Cloud GPUs | Greg Osuri (0xResearch)
“All of us pay a cloud tax — you and me, we just don’t realize it. For context, next [nearly] 50% of all the subscription fees you pay for online services goes to one of the cloud providers, you just don’t know it.” — 00:02:11
Context: His recurring opening argument: cloud is an oligopoly — “an extremely important layer that is extremely opaque” — and Akash’s mission is to reverse that opacity.