Carlyle founders were paid $800 million in 2014 to dismantle the U.S. economy and otherwise leverage it 10x
Their take from 2013 was $750 million.
Ten U.S. generations built the economy, and the last one sold it off. A generation of buffoons, too lazy to build and sustain a real economy.
This will be known as the generation that laid itself off, while worshipping false idols all the way to collapse:
"Rational self-interest" taken to its inevitable conclusion, by monetizing the future.