But the public rage is directed only at the middlemen — the politicians.
It drew cheers from an appreciative audience at the first UK screening earlier this week, and after listening to Pixar's John Lasseter talk about the process of turning round Walt's ailing business, I couldn't help but wonder if the episode was a sly dig at the middlemen who used to run the Disney show.
It is yet another attempt at eliminating the middleman and having a direct relationship with the consumer.
Initially, the company had the idea to bring the still largely offline world of used manufacturing equipment sales online in a B2B marketplace aimed at eliminating the middleman from transactions.
The company, for background, launched an online marketplace last August aimed at eliminating the middleman in transactions involving the buying and selling of used manufacturing equipment, primarily semiconductor equipment to start.
"Rather than being at the mercy of the middleman, we really stress quality".
GLL's product helps its customers avoid the middleman at the water pump who often takes a cut for himself and triples prices in drought season, says Peter Todbjerg Hansen, managing director of this Danish provider of water management solutions.
"We're completely at the mercy of the middleman, who is already forcing us to sacrifice on prices, and yet they still concoct this case against us".
Web sites in California and Wisconsin, among other places, allow farmers to sell produce and meat directly to consumers, yielding a better price at both ends because the middleman has been eliminated.
Another allows rural stores to order goods, saving time-consuming trips to city markets.A second category of services includes those that cut out the middleman, or at least keep tabs on him.
