If customers are 3rd party then who is the 2nd party?
Customers, clients and payment processors are not 3rd party.
You may as well say your bank is 3rd party, but that's not what the term means.
Basically you always want to control the money and customer. If you don't do that you don't have a real business.
You are right, I was thinking more towards the lines of
Despite having the customers and clients.
How is he going to be scaling up to make $$$ monthly without using 3rd party anything.
What happens if one of his "3rd party" breaks down, gets patched, stops functioning, leaves, gone etc, isn't that still being reliant on a "3rd party" regardless
It's modern day slave labour.
Lastly, life entirely is modern day slave labour
Go try live without $, you won't get far.
Doesn't matter how you generate that money, you don't want to work under someone, you do everything on your own, you work under someone, you get told what to do.
At the end of the day, you are working to make that money.
You can tweak it, pretend what you are doing to be glorious, better than anyone else and anything in-between but at the end, without money, you wont go far.