Evil Genius "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli Is Not a Bad Guy

The Pharma-villain Martin Shkreli has been found guilty of fraud between 2009-2014. Shkreli supposedly tricked investors putting money into his hedgefund. Shkreli's lawyer says that if only the investors would have had more patience their money would be safe.

 

 

The most evil human being alive?

I have no idea if he is really guilty of that or not, and it's almost not relevant. Because Shkreli became famous as one of the most "evil human beings in the world" when he bought a drug called Daraprim, which is used to treat toxoplasmosis, a disease which can be fatal to H.I.V patients - and then raised the price from twenty dollars per tablet to seven hundred and fifty dollars.

After all this infamy, Shkreli continued to play the role of the "evil genius" while waiting for the trail. Purchasing a one of a kind unknown album by Wu Tang Clan for 2 million USD and got into a beef with Ghostface Killah. Shkreli started to post videos on youtube where he let's people call him and ask questions. However, if the caller trolled him, he trolled them back times 1000. I'm not sure if he really did these things, but you can judge for your self. Finding out where people lived, supposedly sending letters to their schools or parents etc. Bragging about his money, how G he was, how much women he screws. But that was the troll Shkreli.

 

After watching more of his videos, I realized he's not a a psychopat. He's just a guy who gives zero fucks about people who show disrespect. I watched several videos of him talking to parents of kids with horrible diseases, and his compassion is without a doubt real. He even donated a lot of money to all kinds of people to help them afford different medication for their kids.

 

Shkreli just showed us how things work

And keep in mind. Shkreli has not been found guilty of anything related to the pricing of Daraprim. Remember, Daraprim is a medicine that a couple of thousand people in the U.S is in need of. No other pharmaceutical companies would touch Daraprim, because there was no money to be made. Shkreli simply raise the price to where it should be so that investors could make money on it. If no one is making money, no drug would exist. That's just how the world works. Also, remember that drug companies have something called patient assistance programmes. These programs provide co-payment assistance or free or discounted medicines to people who can’t afford them.

But because of Shkrelis flamboyant and "evil genius"-like appearance, he was the perfect scape goat for the media to lash out on. Someone who didn't say what ever the media wanted him to say, someone with unpopular but objective and realistic views on things. The wanted a poster boy for the evil drug companies. And I'm sure there are a lot of evil people in drug companies. But Shkreli is definitely not one of them. But he is probably the easiest one to show to the mind numbed stupified public.

Remember, a truly greedy executive would hold a much lower profile than Shkreli. He has showed people how the industry works for better and worse, and in my opinion he is not the evil person portrayed in the media. Raised by poor parents, becoming a millionaire and CEO and hedgefund manager in his thirties, he is as untraditional as it gets, and is truly an example of the american dream.

In fact, Shkreli has saved a lot of lives. How many of us can say the same?