The great libertarian Walter Block wrote a book called Defending the Undefendable in defense of a rogues' gallery of people we're all taught to despise: the slumlord, the scab, you name it.
One of those people is the middleman.
Everyone hates the middleman. They think: the middleman takes a product created by someone else, adds nothing to it, and sells it for a higher price.
Even among libertarians I find that the myth of the middleman as an exploitative and unproductive parasite is alive and kicking.
I want to beat it down with a baseball bat.
Think of how many products are for sale around the world. Who can know what the number is? But it must be astronomical.
Nobody can know them all, and nobody can fish through them all to find the ones that would benefit him.
The middleman takes this task upon himself, providing the specialized service of bringing products people might otherwise not know about to their attention.
So yes, if you run an eCommerce store, you are a middleman.
You do not manufacture the products yourself (thank goodness).
But that doesn't mean you aren't adding value! You most surely are.
So don't let the anti-capitalist propaganda get you down.
Instead, learn how to open your own online store, even as a stone-cold newbie. Think of it as your insurance against the pink slip. That is, until the day you march in and tell The Man to take this job and shove it.
Tonight the doors close on the program taught by Aidan Booth and Steve Clayton, both of whom I have known for five years.
They will take you by the hand.
Plus: there will be a ton of fellow Tom Woods Show listeners in there with you. It will be a blast.
Tom Woods