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by zoklet-enjoyer 80 days ago
It's great that she spoke out, but she was complicit in all of this too.

https://restofworld.org/2025/careless-people-book-review-fac...

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The theme of the book is "power corrupts." Wynn-Williams is not an exception. Sometimes she acknowledges it, sometimes she glosses over it, but the way the job compromised her own morality is one of the most fascinating parts of the book.

I am not sure I would have done better in her place. When it's your livelihood (or your friends,) it's so much easier to just fall in line. If she'd gotten along personally with the other execs, the book wouldn't even exist.