"To buy a company with the pure goal of extracting any short term value with the intent of destroying it seems to be a long term societal ill that should be reg

"To buy a company with the pure goal of extracting any short term value with the intent of destroying it seems to be a long term societal ill that should be regulated out of existence." Why? The company would not have been bought otherwise, apparently. The company had issues obviously. The buy felt there was value to be extracted just not by continuing the operations. So what.