alt Hacker NewsNothing wrong with middle men per se, but problems do arise when we all rely on the same middleman: those become way too powerful and can do nasty things.
By that time, no one can do without the nasty middle man as we have forgotten or never learned the skills to fend for ourselves and are thus beholden to the nasty middle man.
Network effect compounds this
As long as you have plenty of competing middle men, like we do for eg social networks in the real world, it seems all fine.
Remember: Facebook is for grandparents, not where the cool kids hang out.