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The Pros and Cons of Our “Middleman Economy”

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How Did Consumer Capitalism Come From?

The size of these large middlemen growing in scale. That allows dis aggregation, it allows production to be done differently. And so there's very significant cost that i don't think anybody fully appreciated as they were putting the these systems together.

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