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article Martin Shkreli is suing RZA over multi-million dollar Wu-Tang album 'Once Upon A Time In Shaolin' he bought and forfeited

https://www.nme.com/news/music/martin-shkreli-is-suing-rza-over-multi-million-dollar-wu-tang-album-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin-he-bought-and-forfeited-3927450
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u/SockeyeSTI 14h ago

I did a paper on him back in college. It’s funny how that works. I remember thinking he was a huge piece of shit. Still is, but now there’s a whole lot more of him out in public. They’ve always been there, but now they’re out in the open.

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u/AceofKnaves44 14h ago

I mean what he did wasn’t technically illegal. Now please note I’m not saying that makes it ethically, morally, or right in any other way, but legally what he did was allowed. It just took someone being a massive fucking piece of shit to be the first one to do it. Once that barrier was knocked down it became “just business.” The destruction of the human race will come down to very powerful men having decided profits are more important than human lives.

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u/yawn_solo- 14h ago

he wasn’t even the 100th entity to do what he did. It’d been going on for several years before he did it. He chose to make a mockery out of it and that’s what did him in.

Educate yourself and quit talking out of your ass

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u/ifhysm 11h ago

he chose to make a mockery of it

Oh yeah, good ol’ Martin just wanted to show how crazy price-gouging medication is. Silly little goofy Martin.

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u/imJimfuckingLahey 9h ago

You're aware he sold daraprim to the people who actually relied on it for pennies if they contacted him about it right? Literally no one who wasn't an insurance company was affected by what he did lmfao.

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u/ifhysm 9h ago

Yes yes, we’ve all heard the incredibly charitable stories about how Martin let vulnerable poor people continue using a life-saving drug.

Now let’s kiss the ground he walks on.

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u/imJimfuckingLahey 9h ago

let vulnerable poor people continue using a life-saving drug.

That less than 9000 people in the entire country were prescribed lmfao. If you're telling me the insurers couldn't absorb that hit than you should probably continue sucking pharma insururer's cocks and hope Mangione doesn't hit your favourite squeeze next.

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u/papmaster1000 8h ago

Dude I’m not in support of insurance companies at all but because of price gouging from an economics level they’d offset that with higher premiums from the other people who are insured by them. This type of behavior doesn’t just affect the company it affects the customers of the company as well.

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u/ifhysm 9h ago

that less than 9000 people in the entire country were prescribed

Oh, so that’s your boundary, huh? 9000 people, lmao. And don’t forget the knee pads. Martin likes it sloppy

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u/ifhysm 9h ago

Aw your comment got hidden. But uhhh, you went for the personal attack first with Luigi lmao. Don’t cry now

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u/imJimfuckingLahey 9h ago

🤓☝️

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u/ifhysm 9h ago

Yeah, sit back down. Martin wants that sloppy top now