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Gotta say the irony is strong with a private equity firm called Ethical Capital Partners acquiring porn company MindGeek. I wonder who's fucking who the hardest?

Is there anything unethical about porn?

I don't think there's anything inherently unethical about porn, but quite a bit of porn production involves unethical practices.

I think the answer depends on one's world view.

Historically not the kind of topic that can be debated well on HN.

A lot of institutions name themselves to cover their biggest weakness. It took me a while to realise that the street I lived on a decade ago was called "xyz Gardens" because it didn't have any.

"Democratic republics" are often neither democratic nor republics

Gretchen Morgensons book The plunders: how private equity runs - and wrecks - America, is also good

Gotta find new industries to shuffle around all of their debt: https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...

They sure do love those captive markets, don't they? Very little elasticity or opportunity for substitution, so maximum rent seeking. It would be hard to find a better argument for price controls and/or Pigovian taxes.

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