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He's the poster boy for dysfunctional capitalism. He got busted profiteering off of dying people. Lot's of people are sick and sociopathic to the core like hi
by nickthemagicman 9y ago
He's the poster boy for dysfunctional capitalism. He got busted profiteering off of dying people. Lot's of people are sick and sociopathic to the core like him buy he is the one who had the flashlight pointed at his particular roach nest. Instead of trying to be better a better person, he and the other dysfunctional capitalists are trying to punish the people holding them accountable.
Classic despotic strategy.
- pavel_lishin 9y agoMy understanding is that he got busted illegally using money from one of his businesses to prop up another one of his businesses.
- shlorn 9y agoHe was actually found not guilty of that charge. The charges he was found guilty related to him lying to investors when he lost their money in a hedge fund he operated. According to the jury, he felt bad about this and made them whole by paying them back in stock. All said and done--everyone made money, including some his accusers who made 10x their original investment.
- nickthemagicman 9y agoDid we forget that he jacked the price of Daraprim up from 13$ to 750$?
- pavel_lishin 9y agoNobody's saying he's not an asshole, but he wasn't convicted of being an asshole or of raising drug prices.
- nickthemagicman 9y agoThat wasn't what I was referring to. I was referring to when he jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug from $13 dollars to $750 dollars to increase profits... Thats profiteering not profiting...
- pavel_lishin 9y agoI guess I'm not sure what "getting busted" means, then.
- wyck 9y agoNothing of what you said is actually true, in fact it sounds exactly like what most journalists say about Shkreli, and the reason why he hates them.
- nickthemagicman 9y agoHe jacked up the price of a lifesaving drug to make his shareholders profits? Thats called profiteering, not profiting. How is that not psychopathic?
- wyck 9y agoHe jacked up the price for insurance companies, individuals paid 1$ if they have no insurance. He considered it a robber baron technique to get funding for new drug research to charge the insurance companies, whom have lots of $$ for PR firms to twist the narrative in the MSM, big pharma is a thing. If you think he some sort of evil villain you've eaten the PR.