As Hettie O'Brien observes when capitalism seems stalled (especially in the UK), the rise of Private Equity's business model (of asset stripping & use of debt to extract cash from businesses) is just one more example of a zero-sum economics that now dominates the social relations of inequality & impoverishment.
The Q. is whether this is the end-stage of this form of capitalism or the final contradictions that will cause the entire edifice to collapse?
#capitalism
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/07/capitalism-endgame-private-equity-captured-nurseries-care-homes
Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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