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why shouldn't a life saving treatment be exploited for personal financial gain? hmm let me think about it for a minute. Meanwhile, when the future "allocation o

why shouldn't a life saving treatment be exploited for personal financial gain? hmm let me think about it for a minute. Meanwhile, when the future "allocation of capital" is to spend $2m on a rap album, I think your argument falls apart. Sociopaths often do small goods to whitewash their ills. Saying that any action Shrkeli might take is ok because some other purported endeavor is designed to help people is a perfect example. To say that the only way to get money for medical research is to exploit society and its regulatory environment, sounds to me like a bad faith argument, since it's so easy to come up with counter examples (VC, public grants, prior profits from normal development/sales cycles). Besides, Shrkeli is in prison for securities fraud unrelated to his pharma shenanigans, so how does that work when he's actually a terrific person?

1000units 6y ago
> Meanwhile, when the future "allocation of capital" is to spend $2m on a rap album, I think your argument falls apart. He spent a tiny portion of his earned wealth to honor and support the Arts--in particular he supported struggling African American rap artists with a long history of strong performance and depth. Shkreli is a bona fide Rennaissance man, and I certainly do not hold this gesture against him. I am tempted even to call it charity. > Besides, Shrkeli is in prison for securities fraud unrelated to his pharma shenanigans, so how does that work when he's actually a terrific person? His "financial crimes" are nearly universally acknowledged even in this thread to have been contrived by his political enemies in retaliation for his more famous antics which were unambiguously legal. The case they brought against him was an absolute joke, and he would have been acquitted of all eight charges (instead of just five!) if he had been given a fair trial. Then, to further make the crooked lawfare obvious, they absolutely slammed him at sentencing with an outrageous ruling that departed dramatically from federal guidelines and rulings in similar cases, including those involving his "co-conspirators"! It was an unambiguous "f_ck you" to an American hero who deserves nothing but respect and admiration. He rose into wealth and prominence in a highly technical field despite coming from virtually nothing by the force of sheer talent and motivation, and the established powers that be were really rubbed the wrong way. This is all yet another sad case of feelings of inferiority by bug-souled racists clashing with pvre Albanian Excellence.
- howlgarnish 6y ago
  Ah yes, the struggling artists known as the Wu-Tang Clan. You, sir, are masterfully trolling, Shkreli himself, or possibly both.
  - 1000units 6y ago
    Let me just say this: that album got sold the way it did for a reason. My boy Martin did these guys a big favor.

1000units 6y ago

> Meanwhile, when the future "allocation of capital" is to spend $2m on a rap album, I think your argument falls apart. He spent a tiny portion of his earned wealth to honor and support the Arts--in particular he supported struggling African American rap artists with a long history of strong performance and depth. Shkreli is a bona fide Rennaissance man, and I certainly do not hold this gesture against him. I am tempted even to call it charity. > Besides, Shrkeli is in prison for securities fraud unrelated to his pharma shenanigans, so how does that work when he's actually a terrific person? His "financial crimes" are nearly universally acknowledged even in this thread to have been contrived by his political enemies in retaliation for his more famous antics which were unambiguously legal. The case they brought against him was an absolute joke, and he would have been acquitted of all eight charges (instead of just five!) if he had been given a fair trial. Then, to further make the crooked lawfare obvious, they absolutely slammed him at sentencing with an outrageous ruling that departed dramatically from federal guidelines and rulings in similar cases, including those involving his "co-conspirators"! It was an unambiguous "f_ck you" to an American hero who deserves nothing but respect and admiration. He rose into wealth and prominence in a highly technical field despite coming from virtually nothing by the force of sheer talent and motivation, and the established powers that be were really rubbed the wrong way. This is all yet another sad case of feelings of inferiority by bug-souled racists clashing with pvre Albanian Excellence.

howlgarnish 6y ago
Ah yes, the struggling artists known as the Wu-Tang Clan. You, sir, are masterfully trolling, Shkreli himself, or possibly both.
- 1000units 6y ago
  Let me just say this: that album got sold the way it did for a reason. My boy Martin did these guys a big favor.