Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Martin Shkreli we hardly knew ye! Shkreli, if your memory needs to be refreshed, is a former hedge fund manager and CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals who's biggest claim to infamy is that he raised the price of a live-saving drug (Daraprim) from $13 per pill to $750 per pill, or, in this case $75,0000 for a full course of treatment. What a guy, eh? Well, consider that he is not atypical when it comes to the CEOs of American Pharmaceutical companies. He just pushed the envelope a little bit more than most people in his profession would do, at least all in one instant move. The man just had no subtlety. Most in his position would have raised the price of the medication incrementally. But, at age 34, Shkreli was just too arrogant and full of himself. The great irony in this story is that Daraprim is an anti-parasitical drug.

Martin Shkreli is now going to prison. Unfortunately, he did not get the sentence a person like him deserves but that's our "justice" system for ya. He got the news last week that he would be locked away for a mere 7 years and have to pay out over $7 Million in fines. No hard labor. No beatings, yet.

Shkreli's "worth," if you can use the word 'worth' in relation with him, is listed as $27 Million. At least, for once, that kind of money couldn't save a scumbag perp from doing time. I'll take that as a measure of how despicable he is, maybe in a karma way, but, in reality, he went down for securities fraud. That's the punch line. He isn't being punished for his psychotic determination that people will die while he and his Big Pharma company would make a ton of money in one sweet profit soaring move. Shkeli got his comeuppance for taking advantage of his fellow corporate Richie Rich types. In our "justice" system, a CEO taking actions that unnecessarily kill people is fine, but bilking the rich? Well, you go to jail for crimes against the corporatocracy!