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Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators

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182 points tencentshill | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 13:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.405s | source
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N_Lens ◴[29 Aug 25 15:10 UTC] No.45065170[source]▶
Private equity is a massive juicer that’ll try and squeeze money out of anything, destroying all the inherent value in the process.
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ziofill ◴[29 Aug 25 15:14 UTC] No.45065228[source]▶
and pumping up costs
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pixl97 ◴[29 Aug 25 15:15 UTC] No.45065245[source]▶
Increasing costs solely for the sake of increasing profits that is.
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staplers ◴[29 Aug 25 15:20 UTC] No.45065293[source]▶
An increasing monetary base ensures this. It's simple economics and baked into most monetary policy around the globe.

If you take issue with increasing prices, monetary inflation (printing money) is the root cause.

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1. convolvatron ◴[29 Aug 25 16:01 UTC] No.45065812[source]▶
I think we're talking about cashing out a company by prioritizing short term returns over long term survival (including insulting your customers, degrading the brand, committing borderline fraud, etc) . that's pretty orthogonal to broad structural inflation.
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2. staplers ◴[29 Aug 25 18:23 UTC] No.45067667[source]▶
Ask anyone in leadership and you'll find the goal is always "outpace" inflation with shareholder value.

It's very simple and so many fight tooth and nail to see what's right in front of them.