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Hacker News Mar 28, 2026 at 21:43 Developer Tools

Private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs

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Private equity firms exploited vulnerable elderly individuals by extracting excessive financial gains, effectively turning them into sources of continuous profit.

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