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Not an ounce of sympathy for Elizabeth Holmes. She needs to go to prison. Now.
by JCM9 3y ago
Not an ounce of sympathy for Elizabeth Holmes. She needs to go to prison. Now.
- asdfman123 3y agoAnd frankly, who cares about Elizabeth Holmes the person? Society is better off when we make a strong example by punishing frauds and con artists.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoIf there were an Elizabeth Holmes clone that had been punished 10 years prior for some similar con, would this Elizabeth Holmes have not become a con artist?
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> would this Elizabeth Holmes have not become a con artist? Probably not. But she wouldn't have gotten the scale she had.
- chongli 3y agoI don’t think anything would have deterred her. She’s a psychopath. I would not have been surprised in the least if it had come out in the trial that she hired a hitman. The legal system has numerous functions. One of them is deterrence. Another one is rehabilitation. But one function a lot of people don’t like is retribution and simple removal. Removing dangerous people and frauds from the streets makes society safer at the margins. It’s an ugly business but I can’t see a way around it.
- selcuka 3y agoMaybe Elizabeth Holmes, that specific person, still would; but there would definitely be less con artists around. Currently being a con artist must have the highest reward/risk ratio among all professions.
- paxys 3y agoMaybe. Maybe not. We obviously can't predict individual cases, but in general the entire Silicon Valley "fake it till you make it" ethos was definitely responsible for how her life turned out. And I'm sure the Theranos case has directly led to at least some investors doing more due diligence and holding their founders more responsible for results (though sadly still not close to enough).
- plagiarist 3y agoI wish society would. Sometimes it seems like only those who defraud the wealthy get punished.
- xyst 3y agoUnfortunately these frauds and con artists are like weeds. Remove one and 3 more sprout in its place (ie, former CEO of WeWork, Neumann) In most cases the perpetrators do not even get jail time. Pay a fine and move on.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoWhat fraud is Neumann guilty of?
- MPlus88 3y ago[dead]