You're Just the Mayonnaise in a Bad Sandwich
That's what a character played by actor Bruce Willis said to Robert DeNiro's movie producer character in Barry Levinson's brilliant film What Just Happened. I second that. Producers, recruiters, managers, real estate agents, sales agents, lawyers, and outstaffers — what do they all have in common? They are middlemen standing between money and the proletariat, taking a huge percentage for themselves but adding no value. Their very existence is our mutual misfortune. We are too weak to get rid of them now, but sooner or later every supply chain will be mayonnaise-free. Look at Uber — taxi companies are dead already, and we now have only drivers and passengers with a computer system in between. The same will happen everywhere else.