The Illusion of Efficiency Meets the Reality of Capital Capture.

As global corporations aggressively substitute human labor liabilities for autonomous software execution loops, they operate under a fundamental economic misconception: that open market tech competition will continually depress the cost of software. Instead, they have walked directly into a highly synchronized, price-stabilized perimeter.

By exploiting architectural lock-in, supply-chain cost pass-throughs, and structural conscious parallelism, the cloud triopoly has transformed corporate automation from a variable operational efficiency into an inescapable, multi-decade structural tax. Having hollowed out the internal human engineering talent required to execute an exit strategy, the modern enterprise is no longer an independent agent—it is a locked-in tenant to a cognitive utility cartel.