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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (27 children)

A hedge fund bought Red Lobster.

Sold all of the ladder (so the hedge fund no longer owns the land).

The people the hedge fund sold the land to jacked the rents (because the hedge fund couldn't have, since they don't own the land).

And since the hedge fund still owns Red Lobster, they screwed themselves over.

Right? That's how this reads.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They've basically siphoned the businesses assets out into cash for themselves, a little bit at a time.

Owning Red Lobster might sound like a cool idea but imagine if you were a hedge fund and you could own the equivalent of the value of Red Lobster in the form of cold hard cash money.

(this hypothetical requires you to abandon all human empathy or long term ethics)

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