00:00Private equity firms are buying healthy local businesses just to sell the dirt underneath their very feet.
00:06They immediately sell the company's physical real estate to a separate entity for a massive upfront windfall.
00:13Then they force that original company to pay lethal rent on land they've previously owned entirely outright.
00:21This massive new overhead cost is specifically engineered to drain every single cent of the company's profit.
00:27That guaranteed rental income flows directly to billionaire investors through a specialized and tax-advantaged real estate trust.
00:36Your local store struggles with artificial debt while the invisible landlord collects massive checks from the wreckage.
00:44When the business inevitably collapses from the rising rent the landowners keep the valuable underlying property.
00:51They effectively strip the core value from the community and leave long-term workers with absolutely zero severance.
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