I tend to agree on this one. Yes, there is a whole lot of jockeying to be a chokepoint (an artificial barrier between business and customer where even more mon

I tend to agree on this one. Yes, there is a whole lot of jockeying to be a chokepoint (an artificial barrier between business and customer where even more money can be extracted for minimal service). I can't stand chokepoints, it's kind of like a man-in-the-middle attack on your money. That being said, "I've created a chokepoint" seems like about 75% of all startups - finding a way to get between customers and something they need, creating a way for their startup to get money for basically delivering something that was already being delivered another way. "We do it better than the other guy" is basically bullshit. So the cynical part is right - "if I don't get in on this cash grab, someone else will," but it seems like the nature of capitalism, really