Martin Shkreli is just one rotten apple in a pair of rotten systems

This is an inspiration to take as good care of your health as possible.  

Robert Reich: Martin Shkreli is just one rotten apple in a pair of rotten systems
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/syndicated-columnists/article51352280.html

That is both depressing and terrifying.

In principle, I don't believe torture is ever a fitting punishment for any crime, but I'm tempted to change my mind when I learn of Shkreli and people like him. I feel there will be no justice unless they die long, slow, painful deaths.

Tom_Reingold said:

In principle, I don't believe torture is ever a fitting punishment for any crime, but I'm tempted to change my mind when I learn of Shkreli and people like him. I feel there will be no justice unless they die long, slow, painful deaths.

That could work for me

He's a horrible human being from everything I read and hear about him.

I think prison life would be just the thing for him.  Have everything taken away and let him live in a shared cell in a regular prison. Let him lose his freedom and all the trappings his money can bring him.  Let every aspect of his life be controlled by other people.  Let him work in the prison laundry and get his hands dirty.  And let him associate with people who don't have his money and privilege, so he can maybe develop some sense of empathy.

Maybe at the end of the process you have a better human being.

When someone makes an investment based on unreasonable assumption then it is shame on them.

And yes it is capitalism for "

Instead, Pfizer set the price as high as possible without pushing doctors and insurers toward alternative drugs"

And that is a good thing. Because that is how alternatives and innovation occurs.

mrincredible said:

He's a horrible human being from everything I read and hear about him.

I think prison life would be just the thing for him.  Have everything taken away and let him live in a shared cell in a regular prison. Let him lose his freedom and all the trappings his money can bring him.  Let every aspect of his life be controlled by other people.  Let him work in the prison laundry and get his hands dirty.  And let him associate with people who don't have his money and privilege, so he can maybe develop some sense of empathy.

Maybe at the end of the process you have a better human being.

I am not convinced he can be redeemed, but I have a most unchristian desire to see him suffer. So let the experiment begin.

For those who say it is just capitalism in action, I would put the question: is there no room in capitalism for moral mandates? Such as "thou shalt not set thy profits so high that many many people die or suffer horribly as a direct result"?

It's sooo not in the holiday spirit, but I smiled wide and long when I saw that perp walk on the front of the Times.

And just so zoinks can be a little happy (now that's extreme holiday spirit on my part!), iirc a group of pharmacy benefits companies was working to commission? a generic to undercut the drug the jerk had bought and effectively taken off the market for many.

bramzzoinks said:

When someone makes an investment based on unreasonable assumption then it is shame on them.

Is there no distinction between unreasonable assumption by a prospective investor, and falsified documents presented by the firm seeking investment?

Wow, what a piece of shite.

bloomberg.com:  Shkreli's Bail Revoked after Threat Against Hillary Clinton on Facebook

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-13/shkreli-s-bail-revoked-after-threat-against-clinton-on-facebook

Martin Shkreli’s big mouth landed him in jail even before his fraud conviction did.

A U.S. judge revoked the pharmaceutical executive’s bail Wednesday, ordering him jailed immediately, over a bounty Shkreli issued in a Facebook post for a strand of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s hair.  Shkreli has shown he poses a danger to the community, said U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn, New York. He was taken away in handcuffs.

Shkreli appears to have violated state and federal laws prohibiting threats against the immediate family members of former presidents, the prosecutors argued. The comments prompted the U.S. Secret Service to start an investigation and boost security for Clinton, they said.

Related with creepy details:  pix11.com:  Shkreli's Bail Revoked; Heading Back to Jail

http://pix11.com/2017/09/13/martin-shkrelis-bail-revoked-heading-back-to-jail-over-hillary-clinton-tweets/

Maybe he can be a friend to Bernie Maidoff since Bernie's family has abandoned him.

I "like" DottyParker's post with enthusiasm.

There's something about this guy we're not seeing.  No one is this stupid and assholish.

are you drinking? I can't make hide nor hair out of this post, though I'm leaning towards "he's wrong" because that's always a safe bet.

bramzzoinks said:

When someone makes an investment based on unreasonable assumption then it is shame on them.

And yes it is capitalism for "

Instead, Pfizer set the price as high as possible without pushing doctors and insurers toward alternative drugs"

And that is a good thing. Because that is how alternatives and innovation occurs.

You can say that when we have a President who is the pre-eminent model for those two attributes?

Everyone else is a poser when it comes to those.

Red_Barchetta said:

There's something about this guy we're not seeing.  No one is this stupid and assholish.

Stunning example of self-destruction. At one point, during his trial, Shkreli publicly complained to the press that the prosecutors in his case were "junior varsity."  Who's junior varsity now?   

cnbc.com:  Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/09/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison.html

DottyParker said:

cnbc.com:  Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/09/pharma-bro-martin-shkreli-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison.html

Good to see some happy news for a change.

just remember - this conviction is for screwing over the investor class.

His overcharging of drugs, which screwed over a lot more people in the consumer class, cost him nothing.