Comment by ekropotin
1 month ago
I wish there were some kind of public database that allowed easy lookup of whether a given company is owned by a private equity firm.
1 month ago
I wish there were some kind of public database that allowed easy lookup of whether a given company is owned by a private equity firm.
It should be integrated with the ways that people find those businesses, including maps, Web search, and "AI chat".
I’d happily pay for a tool that lets me opt out of being slowly nickel-and-dimed by entities optimized for short-term yield. This feels like infrastructure: a small amount of collective effort that gives individuals leverage again. Visibility is the lever. And it could be done, it's just more organizing and involvement in local politics. The information already exists, it’s just effectively invisible, and a small translation layer could collapse it into a one-second answer, letting people avoid operators with a predictable extractive playbook, with the only real challenge being the constant, boring maintenance in an environment designed for churn and opacity. Eventually this should revolve around organizing and politics to make a difference.
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Are you using LLM's to help write these comments?
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Identifying them at least it's a better thing than not. The lock-in challenge can be solved too, also through organizing, activism and politics.
I agree! I think this kind of resource would be very useful to a lot of people!
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