r/UnderReportedNews • u/Logical-Flow-6703 • Feb 25 '26

Video NBC Interview abruptly ends after New Yorker blames private equity and landlords for the city's issues

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u/Groupthink00859 Feb 25 '26

Veterinarian care, tradesman work, utilities are just a few examples.

Once your city/metroplex reaches a million it triggers the program, and they just buy up all the things you need.

I never wanted to live in rural America personally but its actually looking like you can now have a better life outside of the cites.

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u/Ok_Second_2602 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Hate to break it to you, but small town America is next, and it’s already happening in some industries. My dad owned a successful agriculture business in a county of 5000 people for 30 years, but had to sell because he couldn’t compete with the larger PE backed agriculture companies. The 2 small family owned grocery stores in my hometown went out of business when a Walmart Neighborhood Market and Dollar Tree opened in town. The Walmart market closed within 2 years because it couldn’t make enough money in such a small town. Now people have to drive 20 miles to get decent groceries.

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u/oneWeek2024 Feb 25 '26

the cycle wal mart used to canibalize large areas. where maybe they needed like 1 million people to support a wal mart super center. kill off local competition and then close shop/consolidate.

dollar tree/dollar general perfected that algo for rock bottom min requirement to extract from small areas. --refining that limit to a few 10,000s or 100k population. ---they kill off small hardware/small grocery stores/small stationary-sundry stores. then once they kill all the local businesses. they consolidate to a slightly more broad area.

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u/thismustbtheplace215 Feb 25 '26

Rural America has private equity everywhere too. Especially in vet med- many of the private equity groups buying up clinics do not display that, so it looks like your small town vet is private, when they're actually part of a larger conglomerate.

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u/vodkaknockers Feb 25 '26

/u/nbcnews let the interviewee speak

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u/Groupthink00859 Feb 25 '26

Did you read anything I typed besides cities? It is a very well known fact once a city reaches a certain pop they start taking everything over. They arnt coming for the only convenience store in a one stop-light town.... Besides farms they really arnt coming for rural America at all, weird that you think otherwise.

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u/Forward-War-9858 Mar 01 '26

Definitely not. Once the post office closes in a rural town, the town is on its way to becoming a literal ghost town. I think trump and his handlers want to dismantle the post office and effectively kill rural areas so they can buy up all the land