Pluralistic: Private equity rips off its investors, too (08 Aug 2024)

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Private equity rips off its investors, too: Remorseless, greedy scumbags are – unsurprisingly – also disloyal.
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Pluralistic: Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages (05 Aug 2024)

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Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages: Corporate raiders and investment banks conspiring to steal companies.
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Pluralistic: The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you (28 Jun 2024)

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The reason you can't buy a car is the same reason that your health insurer let hackers dox you: When monopoly meets infosec, hilarity ensues.
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Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024)

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Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp: Using class warfare as cover for looting.
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Pluralistic: The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home (27 Apr 2024)

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The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home: Like picking pennies off a dead man’s eyes.
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Pluralistic: How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class (08 Apr 2024)

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How to shatter the class solidarity of the ruling class: Maybe we can use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house?
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Pluralistic: When private equity destroys your hospital (28 Feb 2024)

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When private equity destroys your hospital: Looters literally want to kill you.
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Pluralistic: Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future (14 Feb 2024)

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Prison-tech is a brutal scam – and a harbinger of your future: My next novel predicts the present.
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot (09 Nov 2023)

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The enshittification of garage-door openers reveals a vast and deadly rot: Firms undisciplined by competition, regulation, or self-help measures.
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Pluralistic: Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers (05 Oct 2023)

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Union pensions are funding private equity attacks on workers: When your pension fund comes for your job, your home, and your funeral.
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