So, a lot of people are happy that Shkreli, the infamous “pharma bro” who raised the price of Daraprim, a 62 year old life saving drug used for serious parasite infections and to treat HIV, by 5,500 percent has been sentenced to jail for seven years.
The catch is that he was sentenced for securities fraud not for jacking up the price of the drug.
Yes, that’s because securities fraud is illegal, but killing people by jacking up drug prices isn’t.
And that’s the point.
Your betters don’t want someone cheating them, but they don’t care if you live or die.
They really, really don’t. Understand that in the core of your being.
There are others who have jacked up the price of life saving drugs. For example, Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, who makes Epi-pens, isn’t in any danger of seeing the penitentiary. Then there are the jacked-up prices for insulin, which, while not quite so dramatic in percentage terms, comes to $400/month in the US, for a drug that the inventor gave away.
People have definitely died, my “favorite” was a guy begging on Twitter for people to fund him or he couldn’t afford his insulin next month.
He’s dead now.
Yeah.
Folks, they don’t care if you live or die. If dead means more money for them, they’re okay with it. This is true in the US, but it’s also true in Britain and increasingly true in the developed world.
If your masters think you’re worth more dead than alive, dead is fine by them.
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