Sometimes bad things turn out to be good things. But most often, they are not.
The owners? The customers? The employees? The country? Competitors? My 401K? The creditors?
Some of these stakeholders net-win when zombies die, and some of them net-lose. The economy isn't a zero-sum game, but particular categories of actions in it can produce net-negative outcomes for one of these groups. You can't just wave a large brush and say that everyone net-wins when this happens. It's a case-by-case thing.
Eddie Lampert's corporate plundering of Sears is an example of just about everyone but him (Maybe including him? It's hard to tell) losing.
> stakeholders
I hate this term. It's a deliberate attempt to blur the boundaries of who owns something and who does not. It's not shoplifting if I'm a stakeholder in this pack of cigarettes, right?
(Eg fire too many employees to cut costs)