If only it actually played out that way[0][1][2][3]

Whatever legal and theoretical role they play in the economy does not match the actual, real role they are playing: PE firms are by and large, economic vampires. They have a well documented history of sucking the life out of a sector at the expense of workers and consumers alike

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/megan-greenwell-bad-company-priv...

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/10/slash-and-b...

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/private-eq...

[3]: https://doctorow.medium.com/the-long-bloody-lineage-of-priva...