Private Equity Firm Plays Into Rural Identity – Finance mogul Blackstone styles itself “country.”

The industrial history of the nation, begun in small towns and on farms, had many terrible results, from pollution to worker exploitation, but it is redeemed by the things it produced. Blackstone has none of that to offer.

In a world ravaged by climate change destruction, growing income inequality, and a new  administration that boasts about benefits for the few; amidst a social fabric ripped nearly to shreds by mutual fear, a national psyche poisoned by the atomization of the Covid-19 pandemic, and precious few places of solidarity and mutual care, maybe the only coherent worldview that can get us through the day is “you get yours.”

by Christiana Wayne