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Permanent Podcast: Real Talk About Private Equity and Buying, Selling, and Operating Small Businesses

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The Plague of Cynicism

Cynicism is reality. Like there are no good things anymore. And so because there's nothing true and beautiful and meaningful left, then of course, how can it not devolve into pure self interest? It's like post modernism. Infecting capitalism. I think this is all kind of coming back to this collapse of meaning outside of the individual if we all retreat into incurveature. Here's how I'm getting my power; here's how you're getting your power. We've really perpetuated this lie of independence and obsession with individualism.

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