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The person in the middle, taking a cut for the privilege of standing there.
means A person or thing that acts as a go-between, connecting two parties who aren't dealing with each other directly.
from From Latin intermedius, 'in the middle' — inter ('between') plus medius ('middle'), the same medius that gives us 'medium' and 'median.' It passed through French as intermédiaire before settling into English in the 1700s, carrying the same plain geometry: something, or someone, lodged squarely in the gap between two others.
- etymology
- from latin medius, meaning stuck in the middle
- economics
- exists because trust is expensive and they sell it
- disruption myth
- tech kills middlemen then quietly becomes one
- best case
- turns chaos into a deal both sides survive