Re:How the Elizabeth Holmes Doc 'You Can See Everything' Is ...
by WorldMaker on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:24PM
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The Gervais Principle [0] argued that the nature of companies has "optimized" for serial bull shitters (Sociopaths, in its terms) to rise to the top of management.
The argument is that essentially that's become an entire "social class" of people, the people in especially upper management and the people of wealth/privilege.
For whatever reason our society has seemed to have evolved to a point that honesty does not "valuable" or a trait held by "wealthy people".
It's hard not to feel like this is a theme of the movie in question, too.
The argument is that essentially that's become an entire "social class" of people, the people in especially upper management and the people of wealth/privilege.
For whatever reason our society has seemed to have evolved to a point that honesty does not "valuable" or a trait held by "wealthy people".
It's hard not to feel like this is a theme of the movie in question, too.
[0] https://ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-t...