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Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by wfunction on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:42PM (#14932978)
It seems like you are completely missing the point. This has little to do with economic inequality. The issue is not that this guy had a random product and raised its price. If this had been a car or an iPhone, we could not have cared less if he had been "greedy" and selling it for $1M/piece. The issue is that this is medicine we're talking about. People don't view healthcare and medicine like they view ordinary services and products. Many people (perhaps not you) have a much higher threshold for what kind of practice is moral/ethical/acceptable in medicine. That's why even in the middle of a battlefield people think it is inhumane to prevent doctors from treating injured soldiers, the war be damned. There is more to humanity than money.
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by bradjohnson on Friday August 04, 2017 @07:55PM (#14933352)
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by wfunction on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:13PM (#14933428)
Retrophin was a company and not a drug, right? The comment is saying things like "Retrophin isn't a widely used drug" which is really confusing me and makes me think either I or the writer (or both) don't have any idea what he's talking about. I'm trying to make sense of it compared to what I'm reading from other sources and am completely failing because of this.
Re:Martin Shkreli is found guilty of securities fraud by bradjohnson on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:14PM (#14933701)
The drug was called Daraprim. I think the linked comment misspoke when calling it Retrophin, but I have heard many of the same things that they are saying. Namely that anyone that cannot get the drug through insurance can get it for free. I don't think that Martin Shkreli is a good guy by any means, but portraying him as "human garbage" is not entirely fair.