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Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them (theconversation.com)
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It is incredible how categorically caustic PE firms have gotten. They weren’t great before, but nowadays the overt and insane hypercapitalist profit über alles tactics are just gleefully brutal.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's a race to the bottom. Once one group starts burning value to drive up speculation a bit longer, everyone has to do it to keep up

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And unsustainable. The biggest buyers and sellers of private equity are both private equity firms. The major driver of profits and growth for all firms are acquisitions and there isn't much left to acquire. This bubble too shall pop with AI.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

And I cannot fucking wait