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If 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?
by unsupp0rted 3y ago
If 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).