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The Debtor-Slaver, A Study in American Class Psychology

It Could Happen Here

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The Leverage Buyout and the Corporate Raiders

The people behind the like leverage buyout um like corporate raiders stuff on Wall Street in the 80s who you know behave. They go into an enormous amount of debt personally to take over a company and then they have to start stripping assets from it right he has to find ways to make money. Donald Trump I think is a sort of tragedy version of it and then you get to see it we've been getting to see it with I with Elon Musk. The violence gets outsourced so these people still have slaves but the slaves are owned by a contractor which's our contractor of a contractorlike somewhere way down the line. We remain haunted by the specter of this kind of guy and they

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