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by nieve 2180 days ago
From related portions of the economy: given the growing use of debtor's prisons, predatory loans, and coercive tactics including armed repossession & bounty hunting dependent on an exploitive for-profit bond regime? Yes. These are not companies rejected by modern capitalism. On a higher economic level private equity's leveraged buyouts are very frequently hostile takeovers that use a company's own resources to seize control of it.