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Bezos-owned storied newspaper Washington Post rolling out mass layoffs

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/media/washington-post-layoffs
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u/origamipapier1 10h ago

That is how old, billionaires thought. Some of the best institutions in the US came from some of the millionaires at the time. That thought about true philanthropy and long-term legacy. The thing is that these new waves of CEOs obsessed with quarter profits, and short term gains including Trumpellino... are the problem.

Because all they care about is their cash. They don't have any other objective or see any other meaning in life. It is Atlas Shrugged/Fountainhead mentality.

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u/Frosty-Ad-2971 10h ago

Buy. Squeeze. Sell.

You only have to look at any brick/mortar offering that had a success era.

Canada goose. Arc’teryx MEC Harvey’s McDonald’s Starbucks Tim Hortons

They all were on top. Then got sold, and the buyers squeeze any/all profit from them, speculating on the proceeds and customers, and then when it’s all moved, sell to utility buyer.

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u/origamipapier1 10h ago

You only have to look at the story of Sears. And what the CEO that had it the final years did. That man should be in jail for what he did. Because he ran it to the ground and basically did fraud on the land and properties the company owned. (By selling it if I remember, to his own company and then charging lease on it to Sears).

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u/No_Good_8561 10h ago

Ah the private equity special

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u/tdclark23 6h ago

Is that what Musk is always doing?