Your thoughts on Martin Shkreli. Sociopath?

Courtier wrote:Lol. He does flail his arms a lot. Maybe he has Aspergers!

Maybe he's pissed because all he does is buy low and sell high, and after buying something that was too good to be true, he is discovering the feds have already taken the drugs and somehow gotten the company he purchased to run at a cost which meets a real supply and demand market.

I'd love to start a business and then charge anything I want, but it doesn't mean the product is that good, nor does it mean people can afford it.

Government is in a tight spot, because the HIV people will probably die before they can come up with the money.


I can argue both sides fairly well, but it seems as if his hairstylist already called him an asshle for us.

-- Fri Feb 05, 2016 9:12 am --

Plus, the truth is, you can make an aston martin for the price of a bicycle.

The USA car industry is under so much foreign competition pressure they are constantly adding price blocks, for lacks of more detailed terms to protect the industry from much cheaper products entering the market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tata_Motors

Founded in 1945 as a manufacturer of locomotives, the company manufactured its first commercial vehicle in 1954 in a collaboration with Daimler-Benz AG, which ended in 1969. Tata Motors entered the passenger vehicle market in 1991 with the launch of the Tata Sierra, becoming the first Indian manufacturer to achieve the capability of developing a competitive indigenous automobile.[4] In 1998, Tata launched the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car, the Indica, and in 2008 launched the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car. Tata Motors acquired the South Korean truck manufacturer Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company in 2004 and purchased Jaguar Land Rover from Ford in 2008.

The also make super cheap handheld pad computers.

They say the Chinese industry could tank hard this year, I wonder if that is due to the industrial nature and commercial progress of India?

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-- Fri Feb 05, 2016 7:40 am --

That ++ quadrant is interesting. Who do you think fits in there? I have some good ideas

Isn't the point of a compass to represent polar opposites on each axis? None of these conditions are mutually exclusive so this doesn't even work.

1) It's not a compass. A compass shows direction on one plane. This is a graph.
2) An axis on a graph can show opposite ends of a spectrum and x and y (each axis) do not need to be mutually exclusive, neither do the limits. This is why each 'quadrant' means you have some value for x and some value for y. in some instances values for 'x' are equal either way.
3) Take a maths class.

Who the f*ck cares about Shkreli?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... book_nymag

So true

The more you know

toosober wrote:Martin Shkreli was an pharmaceutical executive who increased the price on a medication by up to 3,000 %. He was arrested by FBI and currently awaiting trial. He posted 5 million to stay out of the clink. Today there was a video of him being questioned by congress. If you have not watched it the video can be found on fox news or youtube. He immediately struck me as sociopathic. Watch his facial expression, listen to tone of voice, and his over all demeanor.

I always thought he was a narc. I didn't know he was arrested. What for? Upping the drug price? Is that illegal?

For running something like a ponzi scheme with his investors at the hedge fund he ran. The charges are unrelated to the current upheaval with the drug pricing which has caught media attention, though they came forward when this mess did so we must assume it was calculated to further his 'despicable' image and instigate further reform in drug pricing (making him a characakture for the 'evil corporate companies' that are stressing the system). The US is one of the only countries left that allows pharma companies to price the drugs. They are still heavily influenced in the EU by private companies but the process is much more like lobbying and probably better insulated than in the US.

Courtier wrote:The charges are unrelated to the current upheaval with the drug pricing which has caught media attention, though they came forward when this mess did so we must assume it was calculated to further his 'despicable' image and instigate further reform in drug pricing (making him a characakture for the 'evil corporate companies' that are stressing the system).

I think he is playing a role in a political charade.

Probably out of it he will get the charges for the ponzi scheme dropped or something.