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Something's not math-ing (media.piefed.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

No, that's not what middle man means.

A middle man is an intermediary. I do not buy food from the farmers market. I buy it from farmers who have paid rent to be at the farmers market. The market is the landlord, not the middle man.

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  • [–] -2 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Landlords are middle men.

    Is Amazon not a middle man? In many cases you're buying directly from the seller, just like at a farmer's market. Amazon, like a farmer's market, exists to facilitate trade between sellers and buyers. It just collects rents.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    No. Absolutely not. Landlords are middle men between tenant and the earth. But they are not middle men between consumers and commercial tenants.

    Amazon is ABSOLUTELY a middle man because you DO NOT buy directly from the seller you pay Amazon and Amazon pays the seller.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Landlords are middle men between tenant and the earth. But they are not middle men between consumers and commercial tenants.

    And commercial tenants can't access customers without the landlord.

    Face it, they're middle men.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    No, that's just not true. You are trying to win through sheer force of linguistic bullshit. Landlords are LITERALLY not in the middle of any transaction between producer and consumer. They are BEHIND the producer.

    Look at it from the flow of money. I get money from my wage. I go to a shop. I give the shop my money and receive a commodity. I do that every day, once per day. On the 30th day, the shop owner takes some of my money that I gave them, and some of the money other people gave them, and gives a specific amount to the landlord.

    A middle man, on the other hand, is IN THE MIDDLE. The SHOP is a middle man for the PRODUCER. I go to the shop and buy a toy made by Hasbro, the shop owner takes my money and buys a replacement for that toy from Hasbro. The toy is made by Hasbro and used by me but the shop is in the middle of the transaction. The more toys I buy from Hasbro, the more the middle man makes. This is NOT the case with a landlord who IS NOT IN THE MIDDLE and therefore receives a fixed amount from the shop regardless of how much I spend because the landlord has no idea how much I spend at the shop because the landlord is NOT IN THE MIDDLE.

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