• dantheclamman@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 days ago

      Yep, just gut one business after another for the quarterly returns. Same logic as the thieves stripping copper from street lights, just at a bigger scale

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        When they bought a firm I worked at, their goal was to asset-strip the pension fund. Luckily they lost a big court case over that and were forced to repay their ill-gotten gains, though we were still worse off than we would have been because of the legal fees.