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The Pros and Cons of Our “Middleman Economy”

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Is There Another Example of How Middle Men Hurt Customers?

The downside is that once middle men become entrenched, they really do have the ability to use all f that control over interstructure and information. But there's also the digitlness of a lot of this too. Those are platforms. Certainly id like to think many of them is as middlemen, are actually middleman light, depending how the platinum form is structured.

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