Originally posted by Eversor:
Eh. An obnoxious and tactless man with a ****-eating grin gains national attention because he unreasonably raises drug prices (and buys a rare Wu-Tang Clan album in an auction for some ridiculous amount of money), and then he goes to jail for something completely unrelated. Who cares? It's not as if drug companies can't do the exact thing that he did anymore. He's just an unpopular person that people love to hate, and for some reason, even though we on the left are supposed to object to incarceration, we're supposed to celebrate that this guy is in jail? Society is no different because Shkreli is going to be in jail.
Also, of course, if Shkreli hadn’t been self-made or had done a better job keeping himself out of the news, the SEC never would have prosecuted him in the first place. The people cheering this forget about all of the much worse financial crimes the true elites commit and get away with. The fact that he was prosecuted at all is exactly the kind of toxic selective enforcement that’s turbo ****ed global finance in the first place.