Episode summary: Send us a text Middlemen are not parasites but essential “engineers of exchange” who create value by connecting buyers and sellers who might never find each other otherwise. • The word “monger” (and Munger) comes from a Saxon root—Mancgere— meaning trader or merchant • Middlemen historically seen as parasites for buying cheap and selling dear without improving products • 11th-century “mancgere” traders defended their value despite not changing the goods they sold • RA Radford’s 1945 POW ca…
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