Private equity's mining of American business, employees, and citizens Note: This is the full version of the article on private equity published on Anthropocene Dynamics. Capitalism is the most effective system for producing economic growth.  One of the downsides of capitalism is recessions or crashes.  When things are going well in the economy, people are optimistic.  Entrepreneurs start businesses, banks lend more credit, investors become more speculative, companies take on

Everything that exists, whether in nature or society, arises not from moral value but from conditions that allow it, and our judgments of good or bad are simply the meanings we choose to assign. If we want to make a change in the world, we need to understand the conditions and dynamics that allow something to exist and change them.

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