Everyone who is not a farmer or a miner is ultimately a "middleman." Yes, even the tradesmen fixing cars and HVAC system, much less lawyers, bankers, and politicians.
Ultimately, is only the great bounty of the earth, giving us a surplus of food and raw materials, that makes human civilization possible.
Exactly.
14 I, the Lord, stretched out the heavens, and built the earth, my very handiwork; and all things therein are mine. 15 And it is my purpose to provide for my saints, for all things are mine. 16 But it must needs be done in mine own way; and behold this is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints, that the poor shall be exalted, in that the rich are made low. 17 For the earth is full, and there is enough and to spare; yea, I prepared all things, and have given unto the children of men to be agents unto themselves. 18 Therefore, if any man shall take of the abundance which I have made, and impart not his portion, according to the law of my gospel, unto the poor and the needy, he shall, with the wicked, lift up his eyes in hell, being in torment.
a) One can only mine from in-between above/below, hence digging below and bringing above.
b) Farm/firmus/bher - "to hold firmly"...only in-between flow (inception towards death) can form (life) hold onto anything else.
c) Being implies each medium/medius - "middle" within all input, hence each ones choice within all balance.
A trade implies ones consent (to buy) trading for another ones suggestion (to sell)...hence selling self out, when buying into. This tempts one to ignore ones position as medium by selecting a chosen one to mediate all media for one.
All gives ongoing loss; each one within implies temporary growth struggling to sustain self during ongoing loss. Few suggest surplus (more than all) to tempt many to sell each other out for less and less and less....
Example: All implies inception towards death for each ones life. The suggested surplus "afterlife" tempts one to seek more than given, which devalues the life one lives exponentially, which in return permits those who suggest surplus, to also grow insufficiency into limitations and scarcity.