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She benefited greatly from a cult of personality on the way up and is now finding out it goes both ways. I myself don't feel bad for someone who enriched hersel
by jonknee 10y ago
She benefited greatly from a cult of personality on the way up and is now finding out it goes both ways. I myself don't feel bad for someone who enriched herself while peddling snake oil and knowingly giving junk test results to real patients. It is despicable.
- markk 10y agoI hear you, and I also don't necessarily approve of her actions. However at a human level, this is simply a human in pain (assuming she is stressed). Bear in mind, she only benefited in cash, we don't know what her experience of her life is like.
- jonknee 10y agoI feel much worse for all the people she hurt (investors, employees, patients, partners, etc). I'm sure Kenneth Lay was in pain too, but I didn't feel bad for him either.
- pessimizer 10y agoWon't someone cry for Bernie Madoff?
- kawaiio 10y agoPoor Bernie, he must have gone through a tough time witnessing his own offspring commit suicide because of the shame he brought. Poor Bernie, forget tens of thousands of investors who's lives are wrecked because of his deception, he must be going through a really tough time in penitentiary housed along with violent criminals. Yeah, never mind what he did folks, let's focus on the fraudster's emotional pain and try to be accomodating by sending postcards and sell toilet paper with his face on it /s
- PascalsMugger 10y agoThis pain is one of the most potent things that keeps people from trying to pull off fraud more often.
- 2muchcoffeeman 10y agoThat's kind of a strange response. Holmes made millions of dollars administering bogus blood tests to real patients. She had real employees. Due to her potentially wilful incompetence a lot of people are suffering. I don't believe anyone here is advocating that we inflict physical punishment on her. But hoping that she loses her company and never gets to work in the medical field again not only seems like just punishment, but it seems prudent since she was studying chemical engineering when she dropped out. It's unlikely she's even going to be poor. She'll probably still be worth more than you or I, and would never have to work for the rest of her life.
- gohrt 10y agoShe'll never be poor because she came from a rich connected family before Theranos was founded.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoYour views show how dangerous and misguided moral relativism is, when criminals shouldn't be punished by their own guilt and stress for crimes they committed on their own volition. Poor Elizabeth Holmes, are you suggesting we should let her off the hook because she too suffered from "affluenza"?