Re:How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune buil...
by lordnacho on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:13AM
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Everyone likes money, but that doesn't mean they respect those who have it. Do you think more highly of the oil countries that have bought a football club? In a way it's kinda satisfying that the price of respectability is so high; nobody thinks the gulf states are any better than before they decided to pay a bunch of young men exorbitant wages to kick a ball around.
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Re:How the Sacklers shifted $10.8B of an opioid fortune buil...
by save_ferris on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @10:14AM
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> Do you think more highly of the oil countries that have bought a football club?
No, but I don’t see how that deters them from misbehaving. How many billionaire oil or pharma magnates just wish they had a little more respectability? You think they care at all what people think about them? If they did, they wouldn’t have done what made them their blood money in the first place.
The Sacklers enabled the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and yet which did they choose to protect: their money or their reputation?