{"id":728,"date":"2017-05-01T16:38:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailystoic.com\/?p=728"},"modified":"2017-05-01T16:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T16:38:21","slug":"right-thing-can-cost-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailystoic.com\/right-thing-can-cost-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing The Right Thing Can Cost You Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

In early 2014, an employee of the multi-billion dollar medical company Theranos began to worry<\/a> that the company may be engaged in fraudulent activities. Despite being a relatively low-level employee in his early twenties, he decided to do something about it. So he wrote a letter to the company’s CEO outlining the problems as he saw them. The response? A nasty, dismissive note from the company president. Undeterred and convinced the public had a right to know about these problems, the employee then contacted authorities in New York City and a reporter for the Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In time, almost all of these employee\u2019s concerns would be validated in the media and in subsequent investigations. High-flying Theranos would see its business crumble, its billionaire founder\u2019s wealth would evaporate and the company would be banned from its core business activity<\/a> for two years by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.<\/p>\n

Obviously things worked out well for the whistleblower right? Wrong. Not only was this young man repeatedly threatened, bullied and attacked by Theranos, but his family had to consider selling their house to pay for the legal bills. His relationship with his grandfather\u2014who sits on the Theranos board\u2014is strained and perhaps irreparable. The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reported that<\/a> his parents have spent more than $400,000 dollars defending their son in the matter.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an important reminder. Doing the right thing isn\u2019t free. Doing the right thing might even cost you everything. And yet, the Stoics<\/a> would remind us that this should have absolutely no bearing on whether we should do it or not. As Marcus Aurelius<\/a> reminded himself, and us: \u201cJust that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter. Cold or warm. Tired or well-rested. Despised or honored.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This young man did the right thing. It cost him and his family an incredible amount. It cost people that he loved and respected\u2014even though they were doing the wrong thing\u2014an incredible amount. But it was the right thing.<\/p>\n

His parents summed it up well<\/a> in a statement: \u201cTyler has acted exactly like the man we raised him to be, and we are extraordinarily proud of him.\u201d<\/p>\n

May we all try to do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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