Please read a book about these things. HN commentary on any form of trending issue (of which PE acquisition is right now in various other social media) tends to be more about the commenter's own value judgement than any form of disciplined analysis. There are many case studies on LBOs and other forms of corporate turnarounds and you won't have social media pageantry affecting your thoughts.

Private Equity/Capital IMO is a pretty fascinating topic and I have some nuanced thoughts on it but this isn't the forum to have that conversation. There are great books out there on it though and I highly suggest reading them.

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gosub100 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Have you seen the stories / studies about how crowd sourced knowledge can be very accurate when taken in aggregate? I don't know the name for it, but if 1000 people guess how many peanuts are in a barrel, their errors cancel out and the average is quite close to the actual value. That's how I ingest social media comments.

	▲	Karrot_Kream 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Wisdom of the Crowds has been shown to be overly idealized and not particularly effective unless aggressively controlled for independence of opinions. Basically, if you tend to hang out on similar social platforms you won't actually be able to fight bias. Some papers about this: * https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12216932/ * https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1008636108 I specifically find conversations about private equity to be highly polarized by community which is why I think it's a better idea to learn from first principles and then engage in the Internet commentariat.