> Something very strange happened in the last 20 years. Tech companies discovered that the most profitable position to be in was global middleman, at a scale p

> Something very strange happened in the last 20 years. Tech companies discovered that the most profitable position to be in was global middleman, at a scale previously impossible before everything was connected by the internet. They undercut a given market until all the alternatives become financially non-viable and then start hoovering up all the margins from both sides (producer and consumer) of the deal.