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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Pluralistic: Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster (08 August 2023)

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Private equity plunderers want to buy Simon & Schuster: From the same parasites that infected your hospital's emergency room and sucked Toys R Us dry.
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Pluralistic: Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors (20 July 2023)

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Private equity ghouls have a new way to steal from their investors: Continuation funds are a multi-billion-dollar blackmail racket.
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Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity's looting (02 June 2023)

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The long, bloody lineage of private equity's looting: Or, if you prefer, "plundering."
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Pluralistic: Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels (26 Apr 2023)

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Private equity finally delivered Sarah Palin's death panels: Hospices are unregulated, heavily subsidized charnel houses.
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Pluralistic: Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores (27 Mar 2023)

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Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores: Walmart's jackals, picking over the remains.
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