10. “Private equity and consultants that are paid to tell you to just lay off workers.” —RiverParty442 “Funily enough, private equity and private credit are in trouble now, and they are cheesing their numbers so hard that it’s borderline fraud. Turns out you can only do the buy extract profits load with debts sell cycle on companies so much before they go under…

7. “My friend Cathy was probably late 40s or early 50s. She and her husband wanted to live off the grid and participate in the world only on their terms. One day, she and her husband came down the mountain to visit; they lived two hours north. She mentioned that they were about ready for her husband to quit his job, and then…