For example, an advertising executive, could promote unsustainable consumption or consumer indebtedness, destroying the value of every pound they generate on face value.
The dotcom bubble bursts, destroying the value of companies such as AOL, checking Yahoo's rise, and denting confidence in online investments.
And one of the thorniest issues in dealing with down rounds is how a former unicorn keeps its employees after destroying the value of their shares.
The goal, they said, was merely to prevent other foreign companies from emulating Chugai, effectively destroying the value of patents held by a number of other American companies.
Traditional retailers, terrified of cannibalising sales and destroying the value of their expensive properties, were already too late to meet the challenge.
Once that private blockchain is released, if it is longer than the publicly available blockchains currently in circulation it will overwrite them, destroying the value of the work done by others in preference to their own mined bitcoins.
Staff under 50 were not allowed to sell the company stock received in this way, and watched helplessly as it plummeted in value, destroying the value of their pension savings.
Staff under 50 were not allowed to sell the company stock received in this way, and watched helplessly as it plummeted in value, thereby destroying the value of their pension savings.
With central banks the world over printing money hand over fist to revive their economies, inflation will eventually rise sharply, destroying the value of many assets, such as cash held in bank accounts and (non-index-linked) bonds.
