Definition of a farm: a plot of land devoted to the raising of animals and especially domestic livestock.
Countries are the plots of land, and humans are the domesticated livestock.
Instead of being fed fodder to keep us alive and render us profitable, we are fed information (mostly lies) in educational institutions and kept docile by means of cheap entertainment, comfortable paychecks and pleasure-food.
Definition of Feudalism: serfs perform labor on land owned by and profited from nobility in exchange for in-kind goods, like protection.
Technofeudalism: millions of people performing data-labor on websites owned by and profited from corporations like Facebook in exchange for in-kind goods, like social media.
Extending your farm metaphor, these major corporations essentially presume a property right in user data on their platforms -- user data that is immensely valuable in training machine learning and AI algorithms. They have produced data farms with grass they attract us with and they harvest our outputs.
So, how do we do something about this?
First, we need to understand this phenomena and articulate in compelling ways -- as I think your conversation is beginning.
Second, we need to identify ways to reinstate our property rights in our own data -- through both political action and technology (like blockchain)
Third, we need economic models which use blockchain to reward the marginal contributions of data along the entire supply chain towards valuable algorithms (rewarding people for their data labor instead of just extracting it, which would actually lead to higher quality data contributions instead of the flimsy, not-quality controlled ways data is currently collected..)
Great question though all around, what I've added is just a small slice of the pie!