• DrRobotnik [he/him,any]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Shkreli was an evil shithead but he was different in how brazen he was; he laid bare how fucked up the financial system is. He was jokerfied, which these people respond to. most WSB posters are alienated, disaffected millennials without a coherent political philosophy or ideology either way and could glow up with some class consciousness

      • vanityfairz [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Also considering he was the minnow and Valeant were the fucking whale of what he did - like what he did was shitty (and a direct result of the perverse incentive structure the broken medical system is) but the vilification of him seems out of line with the actual decrepit fucks who were doi g this on an industrial scale. He at least made the effort to upfront about how his shitfuckery was a direct result of how broken the system is. (Not to defend, it's just weird seeing him used as the poster boy when he wasn't the worst)

        • DrRobotnik [he/him,any]
          ·
          4 years ago

          His crime was saying the quiet part out loud. The “respectable” companies doing the same or worse are never punished.