If you work with independent people, it's hard to stay profitable I guess, because there are many people that need to get paid.

The benefit of people who do everything themselves is that the guy doing all the work gets all the money. There is no overhead. If you work with many people you have to orchestrate without doing significant work on them, it basically means you have to skim a good bit off the top to pay your own salary

This only works well if you're moving large amounts of razors so that your cut is very small percentage wise. If not, you need to take a bigger percentage to get a decent salary and pay for rent, an accountant, etc, which in turn means less money for the people doing the actual work.