[elzbardico]

Unfortunately that is the same thing I’ve noticed. Someone who clearly has potential and talent but that can’t avoid attracting trouble. Yeah, if you want to preach some kind of socialist ideals in the biggest company in America it is not going to be well received. Even some employees definitely are not interested in salary transparency. But she cant help it and can’t understand that she has a lot more agency in her troubles than she realizes. But the sad part is that she won’t get real help, she won’t seek help, people will keep on enabling her delusions and helping her dig an ever deeper hole. It is all fucking tragic.

[colechristensen]

This is a pattern with certain kinds of mental illness, only surrounding yourself with people that validate your behavior because alienation develops between you and the people who don’t. In other words there is often a social component to these conditions where the condition fosters an environment that tends to perpetuate the condition.