There’s a very interesting article at The American Interest you might want to read. The Reader’s Digest version is that just about every change in the economy, society, politics, and the media from the decline of ESPN to the election of Trump can be explained by “disintermediation”,
…innovation that undermines established or incumbent structures. It cuts out the middleman or middle layers in a process.
Read the whole thing.
I look forward to seeing some disintermediation in our supply of booze that will lower prices and increase our options.
I read most of it. Quite an article to process. At the very beginning of the piece an excerpt described Trump as “the uber of politics.” I thought that was a clever, cultural comparison.