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bucolic_frolic

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1. Necessities were regulated for a reason. This overlays the profit motive on every citizen.
Wed Oct 8, 2025, 09:54 AM
Yesterday

Exploitation will be the result. Private Equity can be good or bad. Many, many a private brand is owned and managed by private equity, often from the remaining pieces of companies that otherwise failed but that made these good products the public was willing to pay up for. Shoe brands for example. But this is anti-competitive unless there's choice I don't see here.

They sell us electric, water, gas. Why don't they buy up all the supermarkets too?

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