The arrest of Martin Shkreli will come as a disappointment to those who learned to hate a brilliant social misfit for spiking drug prices rather than for the reason he jacked up the price of a lifesaving medicines to cause a drop in the price of drug stocks that, for anyone who made millions short9ng drug stocks as did Shkreli. Shires was arrested for driving down the price per share of the company he owned to enrich himself.
Shkreli was a metaphor for the Pharma haters and so his real crime was ignored. His hubris was ultra annoying because he lacks a filter. But being a jerk is not a crime. Defrauding people to enrich oneself is. As Shkreli's favorite rap group, Wu-rTang once noted 'cash rules everything around each me. Cream gers the money'. Dolla dolla bills y'all.'
AMERICAN Psycho
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