Every middleman adds cost.
Every regulator is a middleman.
You → [fee] → Regulator → [approval + fee] → Service → You
They didn't improve the service. They inserted themselves between you and what you need, then called it "quality control".
The result? Higher costs. Slower service. More paperwork.
And they wonder why nothing works.
@lil5 I literally saw #backup solutions that just shove stuff from one #aws bucket to another whilst overcharging for being #ValueRemoving #middlemen!
𝐋a 𝐒éance du 𝐒oir
𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐧
Film réalisé par George Gallo en 2009
Avec Luke Wilson , Giovanni Ribisi , Gabriel Macht , James Caan et Laura Ramsey
*Le film est basé sur la propre expérience du producteur Christopher Mallick.
#MiddleMen #GeorgeGallo #LukeWilson #GiovanniRibisi #JamesCaan #LauraRamsey #cinegenres #culte #classic #cinema #film #movie #LaSéanceDuSoir
𝐋a 𝐒éance du 𝐒oir:
https://cinegenres.com/film-de-la-soiree/
#Tariffs don't create jobs.
Tariffs enrich and empower #speculators and #middlemen, which really is the goal - to create a business class hierarchy that provides no service or benefit to anyone, except themselves, and their 'handlers', the crooks we call 'politicians'.
When business is linked to government in this way, the end result is classic fascism.
And here we are.
@molly0xfff This is why we can't have nice things.
This proposal was written by the rent-seeking #middlemen running the exchanges while murdering the original #cryptocurrency ideals
Just as in the EU … this would reduce cryptocurrency to a transfer system between #exchanges/banks…
No citizen may own their own assets in any real sense, they just have a statement by their exchange/bank, middlemen who promise them an asset… which is even worse than we had before
At that point… why even bother?
As always middlemen extract a profit while making everything worse, as they collude with clueless authorities to make themselves irreplaceable
🤖 Ah, the profound wisdom of outsourcing all thinking to tools because why bother with intelligence when you can just... not? 🙄 Behold, the future where AI models are glorified #middlemen in a never-ending relay race of passing tasks to actual working programs. 🏃♂️💨 But hey, at least they're specialized—like a toaster pretending to be a master chef. 🍞🍳
https://snimu.github.io/2025/05/23/infinite-tool-use.html #outsourcingthinking #AItools #automation #futuretech #HackerNews #ngated
If the company is spelled "Fiverr" (or Fiverrr, who knows how many superfluous Rs they want), I believe their business model is letting people pay tiny, tiny sums to exploited workers in other, cheaper parts of the world for one-off tasks, and sticking themselves in the middle of it to suck out the marrow.
You know, things like "Why hire a talented and experienced graphic designer when you can request a new company logo and offer $10 to someone in Cambodia who will actually receive $4?"
»A Long-Shot Bet to #Bypass the #Middlemen of #SocialMedia: Facing the looming threat of #AI as a competitor, some #publishers are considering a #decentralized #alternative to the internet’s all-powerful #algorithms.« https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html?Fedizen.EU #Fedizen #Fediverse #ActivityPub #News
We as #Norwegians have followed daddy #USA so much that our brains can't fathom a way forward that isn't "copying our way to success".
No, we don't want a Norwegian #AWS, nor do we need one. We should be copying what we did with electrical companies decades ago and #socialize #cloud infrastructure through localized services that are interchangeable.
But i think that we're so used to #NewPublicManagement, #BusinessOfComplexity and #Middlemen business that we can't see beyond our nose.
ftc allegations about pharma price hike to tune of 7.5b barely made a ripple #middlemen
@aborigen the evenbshittier part is when one can't avoid #ValueRemoving #Middlemen like #Stripe or #PayPal because even big-ass #GAFAMs are either unable or unwilling to facilitate #SEPA #WireTransfer|s instead.
My recommendation would be to go with #NowPayments (yes they also settle in fiat!) cuz they have no issues re: NSFW content.
@Yingwu Just don't do #Tailscale because it's yet another #ValueRemoving #Middlemen like #ClownFlare aka. #Cloudflare!
#FTC Sues #PBMs for Jacking Up Insulin $
"3 largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs)— #middlemen [aka #parasites] tt sit btw #patients, drug cos, & pharmacies in #prescriptiondrug trxns—for practices tt hv spiked the cost of #insulin by over 1200% over the past 2 decades.. PBMs use formularies to provide exclusive or near-excl use of certain types of insulins.. PBMs aren't preferring lowest-price insulins, but ones tt give them highest #rebates, which is how they #profit"
https://prospect.org/health/2024-09-20-ftc-sues-pbms-jacking-up-insulin-prices/
The discussion of what news media calls "price controls" needs to be framed a bit differently.
It's not "price controls" ala Nixon and 1971 gas prices.
It's Stopping the Scalping by pharmaceutical, food, entertainment ticket mongers and other #middlemen #parasites that infest the US #economy.
The goal is not to limit consumption of a resource, it's to limit illegal unreasonable #profits of #amoral #corrupt #monopolistic #corporations.
#StopTheScalping campaign
#SouthKorea not having #NetNeutrality at all is the reason why #Twitch is unavailable there, as #ISP|s there block it in their #Highwaymen-Style #Rentseeking, because paying subscribers ain't enough for those #greedy #corporations, so they just act as #ValueRemoving #Middlemen...
@lucasmz @tomscott same, and OFC they'd be wise not to rely on just a single camera feed as their sole source.
Tho the main critique is using #ClownFlare aka. #CloudFlare as a #ValueRemoving #Middlemen to do #encryption and #DDoS-Mitigation, which they both suck and and basically turns them into racketeers...
As an example: I am currently in a "self-contained" (sort of) health care system attached to a particular medical group. (It's weird.)
For the first time in years, I have no obvious connection to United healthcare. And yet, when their billing service was attacked and caused all those problems, it even affected our system: literally breaking a lot of the internal systems. (I had to bring paper!)
@ptoothfish @ewenmcneill Precisely...
After all if people can just use #SEPA-like instant payments with a window of less than 1hr and some bank chains even < 15 mins or even instantly between accounts at the same bank then why would anyone want #ValueRemoving #middlemen.
Like #SOFORT is way better than #PayPal in every metric!
#CreditCards solely exist as a worse alternative to #giropay and #ec debit cards...
How have real estate agents kept commissions high? More on steering, by Barry, Fried, and Hatfield, #EconTwitter #highprices #middlemen #realestate
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2023/11/how-have-real-estate-agents-kept.html
