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A comment on DOJ: We Want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma Machine, Wu-Tang Album, and $7.3M. Parent comment

Re:DOJ: We Want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma Machine, Wu-Tang Alb... by thaumaturgy on Saturday December 02, 2017 @12:09AM (#15830277)
You're right. The pharmaceutical exploitation that got the spotlight shined on him in the first place was reprehensible, to put it mildly.

But there are an awful lot of other crooks out there taking advantage of as many or more people, and often getting away with it with very little consequence.

I may not like him, but being dislikable shouldn't have that much effect on punishment.

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Re:DOJ: We Want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma Machine, Wu-Tang Alb... by throwaway0255 on Saturday December 02, 2017 @01:15AM (#15830511)
> The pharmaceutical exploitation that got the spotlight shined on him in the first place was reprehensible, to put it mildly.

Can you explain why?

If you think it's immoral for the profit motive to be in play when it comes to healthcare, then fine. But to single him out like he's some kind of extreme amoral outlier or something seems really unfair.

Most people got the drug for free or at an extreme discount, and he spent all the profits on drug research. What he did is pretty much how the entire pharmaceutical industry works.

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Re:DOJ: We Want Martin Shkreli’s Enigma Machine, Wu-Tang Alb... by fjsolwmv on Saturday December 02, 2017 @08:34PM (#15835493)
He spent some of the profits on a WuTang album
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