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by algaeontoast 2677 days ago
Elizabeth Holmes deserves to be sacked by the full extent of social and legal punishment. She's poisoned the waters for a lot of good people - especially professional women engineers / entrepreneurs.

As engineers and entrepreneurs alike - we need to show that regardless of your history, wealth, gender etc. this kind of behavior is not okay and will get you blacklisted.
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P_I_Staker 2677 days ago
I do wonder if we're doing society a disservice by wanting "powerful women" to happen so much, that we abandon all reason. I'm not a big fan of how we put "powerful people" up on a pedestal in general, and our reverence for leadership/ management. These things need to happen organically, and these people need to be relentlessly criticized for this type of behavior. They have power, so they aren't. This isn't limited to Holms, it's been a big problem with Steve Jobs and Elon Musk as well.
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arcaster 2676 days ago
I agree, I think the fact that we laude those with money or power on a pedestal based on immutable attributes is a problem.

Just as many imply money with power and evil - but seem to make passes for their favorite actors or celebrities.

I think we'd be in a better place if we could accept as a culture that gluttony in money and power without reason, irregardless of what someone thinks is "enough" money, should be met with criticism agnostic of race, gender, etc.

My only caveat is for people to assume that anyone with more money than them - moreover anyone who owns a business is "evil" by design. This seems to be one the more present falsehoods of Hollywood as of late. IMO, to take the potential gains out of act of taking risk to build something is wholly un-american. I think making more public those who fail in business or make huge sacrifices more present in media would help this. I only bring this up because the general public seems to tie certain attributes to people they're "okay" with being successful and others who they deem evil just because popular media told them those people don't "deserve" their success or wealth. Et al - the farmer in Iowa or small business owner in Chicago making $250k +.

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