Predators or producers?

EASIER TO DESTROY THAN TO BUILD

If the sun refuses to shine, it does not matter
If the mountains fall down into the sea, leave them be. I have my world to take care of, I do not want to do like you.
But if six would turn out to be 9, I do not care

(“If six was nine”, Jimi Hendrix)

 

In “Pretty Woman”, the successful entrepreneur (Richard Gere) tries to explain the tycoon strategies he uses to consolidate his own empire to a Julia Roberts who knows absolutely nothing about High Finance: buy companies with financial difficulties, cut them into pieces and sell the pieces … Vivianne who is appalled asks him: “Why cut

them to pieces, instead of trying to make the companies you buy work?” and Edward replies: “Because it is easier to sell them in pieces, you work less and make money easily…”. But the cunning businessman is shaken by

the affirmation the girl makes: “You do not do anything of your own, you just exploit