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