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Why does the American people tolerate private equity? It is killing jobs and businesses for profit! (Original Post) Stargazer99 20 hrs ago OP
Private equity should be banned from healthcare, housing and essential services dalton99a 20 hrs ago #1
You are right! Too bad American public is not smart enough to see it also Stargazer99 20 hrs ago #2
Private Equity... GiqueCee 19 hrs ago #3
You inspired me, here's a DU Link Ranting Randy 19 hrs ago #6
Regular people see it, and hate it. The lawmakers are blinded by the $$$ ms liberty 19 hrs ago #4
Is exactly the right question to be asking! LearnedHand 19 hrs ago #5
Because most US American see all the Mediocre rich people... haele 18 hrs ago #7

GiqueCee

(3,613 posts)
3. Private Equity...
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:27 AM
19 hrs ago

... should not be allowed to exist AT ALL. It is a cancer, and cancer always kills it host.

LearnedHand

(5,289 posts)
5. Is exactly the right question to be asking!
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:10 PM
19 hrs ago

Pushing “affordability ” is merely asking the vultures to tone it down. Call it by its name.

haele

(15,186 posts)
7. Because most US American see all the Mediocre rich people...
Thu Feb 5, 2026, 12:42 PM
18 hrs ago

The scammers and grifters, fast talking marketeers, rentiers (investment managers, landlords, and middlemen) skimming off the top with other people's money, Nepo-Babies and parasitic "networkers" using patronage to get advantages, and think to themselves "I can do the same thing, why aren't I rich too?"
Venture Capital is just another way they might be able to get richer quicker if they could just get their foot in the door.
Venture Capital can be harmful, yeah, but they don't want to regulate or get rid of it because they might need it to get really rich in the future, or maybe it will affect their 401k or other retirement investment funds they are holding on to.
The US of A - full of "yet unrealized Billionaires"

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