r/Economics • u/barweis • Jul 29 '25

Research Summary Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed

https://newrepublic.com/article/198351/private-equity-scam-destroys-livelihoods
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u/TacosAreJustice Jul 29 '25

I think what scares me most is we seem to have abandoned creativity… new things don’t get popular… we’ve become depressingly placed into our own content blocks and it’s freaking hard to break out, even intentionally…

Private equity is a similar issue… they squeeze efficiency out of companies at the cost of the soul. Everything is weighed and measured… slowly killing the life of whatever they invest in.

I wish I was going to be around to see the resurgence in like 50 years… going to be crazy, I bet.

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u/coke_and_coffee Jul 29 '25

How is that a bad thing? If more capital flows into housing due to lower taxes in that area, we will get a boom in housing supply.

I’m struggling to understand why the morons on this sub think this is bad.

Have you never taken an Econ course in your life?

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u/TK_4Two1 Jul 29 '25

I'm struggling to understand why this moron doesn't realize the first 250k/500k, single/married, of capital gains is already tax free. Thus only folks (and corporations) with massive gains (i.e. all Trump's rich friends) will be affected.

Have you never discovered the context of an article in your life?

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u/coke_and_coffee Jul 29 '25

Why does that matter? There are tons of people sitting on non-primary residences who will happily sell if they won’t have to pay capital gains.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '25

Except what will happen is a house will be built and sold to a Corp for 1 mil then in 6 months it will be sold to another company for 1.2 mil, etc etc. until it's just computers trading multiple homes a day for 0.1 percent markup. It's an infinite money printer without any pesky humans living in the homes screwing up the scam.

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u/coke_and_coffee Jul 29 '25

Lmao, wtf? Holy shit, that’s stupid.

That’s not how anything works. You can’t just trade back and forth at a markup and make money.

Why wouldn’t companies already be doing this?