On: Private equity may be heading for a fall

[pfdietz]

It's likely to be positive for all of those, even the employees. Who gains from the destruction of value?

> stakeholders

I hate this term. It's a deliberate attempt to blur the boundaries of who owns something and who does not. It's not shoplifting if I'm a stakeholder in this pack of cigarettes, right?

[vkou → pfdietz]

Our society isn't, and shouldn't solely be structured around prioritising the comfort of the people who own it above all others, despite how much they wish that it would.