Zana’s Reviews > Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream > Status Update
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Achieving peak masochism by reading about private equity after my employer announced that they've been bought out by private equity
— Feb 22, 2026 10:12PM
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“(Two finance professors argued that those figures actually significantly understated job losses by miscategorizing different types of buyouts, suggesting that employment shrinks by more than 25 percent in the five years after a public company is bought by private equity.)”
— Feb 22, 2026 10:53PM
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“...If driving it out of business while selling its real estate and collecting its management fees will make more money than actually producing goods, liquidation is not just the best option, but indeed the only one.”
— Feb 22, 2026 10:40PM

