Except that perhaps all those middle men in between talent and event organizers are what make an event successful? Complaining about "middle men" is not dissim

Except that perhaps all those middle men in between talent and event organizers are what make an event successful? Complaining about "middle men" is not dissimilar to complaining about "the Man" keeping you down. Is there a largess of utterly pointless people in a large bureaucratic organizations? Surely. Are all those "middle men" that take money in exchange for coordinating setting up and tearing down Cochella profit monsters? No, probably not. Lots of them are quite necessary, as Mr. McFarland and Mr. Rule just discovered.