Share Cropper

Sharecropping is a system of Agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharecropping

see esp (1986-06-15) Lemann Origins Of Underclass

Whacked by FDR's New Deal.

also a metaphor for being a creator on a BigTech platform