• M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    I get the idea, but I am kinda stuck on the letter writing bit. They do know that the post getting delivered is kinda built on middlemen right?

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      10 hours ago

      Also, food delivery has always involved middlemen. Instead of food delivered through an app, it was food delivered after a phone call. But, it was a human middleman delivery driver doing the delivery.

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        8 hours ago

        Yeah middlemen have been a part of almost all commerce from the start, every store, every trade and most services are in some way middlemen. I think the comic’s message is good but is attributing the terrible actions of llm to middlemen in error.

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      19 hours ago

      Usually those middlemen don’t open up your mail, read what you wrote, then serve you ads based on that.

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      19 hours ago

      Everything you do relies on some middlemen, it’s just about cutting out layers.

      You won’t grow your own food, but you can buy it from a farmer, instead of a store who bought it from a franchise center who bought it from a supply network who bought it from a risk management futures buyer who bought it from a farming company who bought it from a farm.