Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison
by adamrezich on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:19PM
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> Personally I don't see how it's much different to take a ridiculously underpriced drug and raise the price to what the market will bear vs. being CEO of a company and keeping your drugs' prices at its historically high point. I know everyone hates CEO's of pharmaceutical companies anyways but my point is how is he any worse than the lot of them? Purely because of emotion.
This, it seems like people consider Shkreli to be the the "designated punching bag" for Big Pharma, directing their ire and outrage at him specifically instead of the industry as a whole.
Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison
by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:34PM
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I don't think you have the full facts regarding how he behaved towards Lauren Duca.
https://www.refinery29.com/2017/08/166717/lauren-duca-martin...
Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison
by savanaly on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:42PM
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These subsequent actions he took are harassment, I agree.
Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison
by where_do_i_live on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:18PM
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you know... he's going to jail for none of the reasons you provided, and instead for plain old fraud.
Fraud sounds like a perfectly normal thing to go to jail for.
Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison
by savanaly on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @02:43PM
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Yeah I don't think I emphasized quite enough that my post was against Shkreli-bashing, not objecting to him going to jail for fraud.
Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison
by where_do_i_live on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:16PM
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Most people are simply applying social pressure against norm breaking anyways - often times they do not literally mean that he should go to jail - it is simply how people talk about offensive behavior in general.
I'm happy to bash him as well, but I still think the actual jail time should be on legal not social law breaking. Everyone hates someone that is a douchebag, and this guy embraces it making him a perfect target.
Re:Martin Shkreli May Spend 20 Years in Prison
by mnm1 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:13PM
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Maybe you can't bring yourself to hate a person with absolutely no regard for other human lives, but many wouldn't shed a tear if he was executed for that. I know I wouldn't and I don't even support the death penalty. 20 years is still too short for this subhuman psychopath.
The reasons for him being the "most hated man in America" mentioned at the end of the article are:
>increasing the price of a life-saving drug by 5,000%, holding an anticipated Wu-Tang album hostage, harassing women on Twitter, and for his smug court appearances.
Does it seem odd that those are all lumped together in people's minds? Only the first one should have any bearing on the question of whether he's actually loathsome.
* Holding the Wu-Tang album hostage is a totally reasonable thing to do, he did pay an exorbitant price for the right of exclusivity after all. Most people in the hip hop community seem to hold the whole incident more against RZA than against Shkreli in any case.
* The claim of harassing women appears to be false, based on the evidence they linked to. I followed their link and it appears his harassment consists of inviting women to go to the presidential inauguration with him. When they turned him down (in the most insulting terms they could personally think of, apparently) he didn't say any more. So that's harassment now?
* >his smug court appearances. Not exactly a federal offense.
The serious allegation is about raising the price of a life-saving drug, and on this point I totally understand hating him. I can't bring myself to hate him based on that though.
Personally I don't see how it's much different to take a ridiculously underpriced drug and raise the price to what the market will bear vs. being CEO of a company and keeping your drugs' prices at its historically high point. I know everyone hates CEO's of pharmaceutical companies anyways but my point is how is he any worse than the lot of them? Purely because of emotion.