Middlemen Role Debate
Comments debate the value, necessity, and drawbacks of middlemen in business, transactions, and platforms, questioning whether they should be eliminated, replaced, or provide essential services.
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What's the benefit of adding a profit-seeking middleman?
Eliminating the middleman is not the point. Avoiding the negative consequences of having a middleman is the point, and eliminating the middleman is merely a means to that end. If you can be a middleman without (or with fewer of) those negative consequences, then you're working toward the same goal.
I thought the idea was to have less middlemen?
Could you give some examples of the value added by middlemen? And the headaches?
That's literally what middlemen do, they wouldn't exist if they couldn't extract value from the items they pass along.
This is a great way of putting it. Their business doesn't need a middleman. They added a middleman. Now they don't like the middleman.The tears, they just aren't coming.
There are middlemen extracting fees at every step
Why do you need a middleman in the first place?
Middleman have some utility but I think often they extract more money than the value they provide.
By "eliminate that middleman" do they mean "become that middleman"?