The key point is PE just owning for a short period of time. Finance bros that think PE firms are just playing the market in a fair game would say that PEs add value by acquiring businesses and trying to make them better so that they can then resell them for a profit, and on the surface that seems like what they do, but when you look at what they do from a macro economic level, they are just preying on the financial system, adding no value, contributing nothing, making nothing better. It's purely a numbers game these snakes. Nothing matters to them except maximizing profit in the shortest term possible. If businesses and lives get destroyed in the meantime, it doesn't matter at all to them. It's the epitome of a financial system that benefits the already rich/wealthy. It's mathematical seek and destroy purely for monetary gain, fuck whether or not the business they destroy held any value beyond pure financial gain. The proof is in how PE firms are now destroying the already unbelievably bereft Healthcare industry in this country. It was beyond fucked before they got to it, now you can't even seek a "lowly " nursing career without being used, abused, chewed up, and spit out. There's a reason why no one wants to be a nurse anymore (and they're quiting in droves when nursing used to be a noble pursuit where you could also maintain a solid middle class lifestyle and have work/life balance without giving up everything/selling your soul).