Alien LBO?
Reading Pat Foster's book on the last years of Studebaker. It's familiar territory, with a few details I hadn't seen before. The closedown was an LBO, before the practice was named and established. Curtiss-Wright Aviation wanted to acquire Packard's aircraft plants and tooling without the inconvenience of paying. In other words, they wanted to STEAL the factories. They set up a management contract for Studebaker, not exactly a merger, "picked the Packard plums", then abandoned the company.

Leads me to wonder about the recent focus on ET aliens. Suddenly governments are treating aliens with respect, and fashionable magazines are shaping elites toward negotiating and submitting to superior aliens. Heimatssicherheitsdienst is running Alien Invasion alerts "just for fun".

The war of attrition against all real human commerce and industry and purpose started in 1975 with environmentalism plus offshoring. Those trends continued for 40 years, and now we're in a final push toward victory under the Viran regime.

The war of attrition is identical to a planet-level LBO. Run the place on debt, close down all real factories and stores and mines and resources. Fire the workers or wear them down with incessant crazy demands and low wages.

A commercial LBO leaves the resources and real estate vacant and unused, purchased without payment, ready for the predator to start exploiting.

A planetary LBO would look the same, and this is exactly where we are.

I don't believe this theory. I don't like complicated theories. Ockham removes unnecessary entities. The simplest explanation for the last 40 years is just Viagra for psychopaths. Demons running rampant because they can.

Still, the alien LBO is an interesting correlation. Maybe more complex thinkers can fill in more of the details.

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