Ep. 21: Luke Burgis: The Economy of Desire: Rene Girard on Commerce and our Everyday Life
The Moral Imagination
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Elizabeth Holmes - A Scapegoat?
The former founder of Theranos, a company that has been found to defraud it in investors hasn't went to trial yet. We're about nine months away from her going to trial. I think personally that she is guilty of fraud. But it doesn't mean that if she's guilty that we still can't use her as a scapegoat. If you look at the documentary about the downfall of a company, not a single person takes any responsibility for the 10 years that they're raising money and operating. It's just a sign of a scapegoating mechanism at work because it's unanimous against one.
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