"There is a class of investors, and a type of wealthy sociopath, that wants to extract maximum value from their investments...it is an invasive species (which will) continue doing what it does, eventually choke out everything it can compete with or consume, and then starve itself in turn. For anything else to grow, anywhere, it is going to have to go." —David Roth, VICE

This piece is brilliant, but I'm so glad it includes those last 7 words. Those are the crux.
https://defector.com/the-coffee-machine-that-explained-vice-media