Borrow some money.
Use it buy an asset — say, a water supply company.
Load the debt onto the company.
Continue to extract profit.
Last week I went to a talk where Hettie O’Brien presented her book The Asset Class.
This, in essence, is the mechanism she describes — used by private equity across sectors, from water to care homes.
The goal of regenerative design is to survive, thrive and co-evolve.
This is a recipe for the opposite.
Systems originally designed to provide life-giving functions — water, care — are reconfigured to service debt and maximise profit.
A recipe for parasitic extraction.
A blueprint for degenerative design.