The invisible cloud tax on every online service
The Supercloud - by Greg Osuri, Akash (Cosmoverse)
“Andreessen Horowitz did this study: half of every penny you spend on online services goes to a cloud provider — in some cases like Asana, where over 63% of all the fees you pay to the cloud service goes to a cloud provider. In a way, we’re paying this invisible tax, the society, all of us together — we don’t even realize we’re paying this invisible tax.” — 00:05:13
Context: Recurring quantified claim; followed by the CrowdStrike outage as evidence of centralized fragility.