Agency paradox

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The agency paradox: every agent believes in an equivalent double standard: viz., the key to its principal’s business transformation is to disintermediate everything but itself. An instance of, “I agree with you generally, but my particular case is special”.

See also

• Special pleading
• Disintermediation
• Tragedy of the commons
• Ultimate client