It is true to say that "a bad thing with an extra bad thing is worse than just the original bad thing", yes. If there exists a market for imaginary trading card

It is true to say that "a bad thing with an extra bad thing is worse than just the original bad thing", yes. If there exists a market for imaginary trading cards whose value is loosely predicated on how well a company markets itself (rather than on how much value it actually creates in the world), then I agree that it's desirable for that market to exist with as few capitalist hoarders as possible. So, yes, the absence of "corrupt middlemen" is a good thing, and a market without them is better than a market with them. But an even better outcome is for the whole damn edifice to cease to be.