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But without middlemen, those are the *only* writers we'll get. The set of all writers who have something to say that I want to read is *much* larger than the set of all writers who are capable of running their own publishing operation.

The problem isn't middlemen: the problem is *powerful* middlemen. When an intermediary gets powerful enough to usurp the relationship between the parties on either side of the transaction, everything turns to shit:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/direct-the-problem-of-middlemen/

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