That was unnecessarily condescending, and also it's a false equivalence to pretend that lawyers or IT people are all rent seeking middlemen (or that grant appli

That was unnecessarily condescending, and also it's a false equivalence to pretend that lawyers or IT people are all rent seeking middlemen (or that grant application consultants aren't, I don't know which you meant). These kind of handouts encourage a shift from useful work to rent seeking, and cause consultancies that specialize in rent seeking to flourish.