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Abstract: Agricultural economists understand that tenure insecurity produces suboptimal land use. Tenants who cannot claim the fruits of long-term investment choose short-term extraction over stewardship. The "Marshallian inefficiency" of share tenancy applies with force to contemporary digital platforms. Web2 architecture creates analogous conditions. Users labor on rented land they do not own and cannot improve. The cultural consequences of platform dependency follow from the absence of digital property rights. These consequences manifest as anxiety and disposability. A broader effect entails the death of digital heritage. The analysis draws upon classical economics from Alfred Marshall and Joseph Stiglitz. The framework incorporates surveillance capitalism theory from Shoshana Zuboff and the distributist philosophy of G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc. The Myceloom Protocol's first axiom emerges as an economic necessity. Genuine culture depends on the security of ownership. Digital feudalism produces a culture of disposal; digital sovereignty enables a culture of stewardship. Cultivating digital heritage rests on securing digital property rights. Keywords: Digital Feudalism, Platform Capitalism, Sovereignty, Sharecropping Economics, Distributism, Surveillance Capitalism, Property Rights, Digital Heritage, Autogravitas, Myceloom Protocol, Tenure Insecurity, Marshallian Inefficiency, Datafeudalism, Digital Enclosure