1:20

Fucking ouch

been fun seeing people from this site go from r/politics mode to full /pol/ over the years

You're welcome.

Quote from: Scorch on September 14, 2016, 04:41:19 PM

been fun seeing people from this site go from r/politics mode to full /pol/ over the years

wut

peoples political beliefs on here have been fairly consistent since the start

conservative views rhymes with kill the jews

now what does that tell you

wut

*what

Slash went from classical libertarian to full fash too.
Some of the others transitioned mildly too

I know that when I started using bungie I was one of those "Communism is good it just hasn't been done right" guys.

Thankfully I'm not anymore.

I've changed my views on a lot of things over the past two years.

Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on September 15, 2016, 10:59:41 AM

Slash went from classical libertarian to full fash too.
Some of the others transitioned mildly too

Do you think I have?

You've always been a stupid liberal.

Quote from: Verbatim on September 15, 2016, 02:58:49 PM

Just recently, I discovered that Martin Shkreli is the man, and that what he did was actually way less evil than I thought.

Hell even I don't think that. I'm pretty sure what he did was illegal, and that he was investigated by the FDA for it.

I could be wrong, though.

Price gouging is certainly illegal, but what Shkreli did was not price gouging--it's common practice in the pharmaceutical industry, and not a single toxoplasmosis patient has been unable to access his drug due to the nominally high price--principally because they're not the ones paying for it. It's insurance companies and big corporations like Walmart that end up paying the brunt of it just to stock the drug.

The average consumer ends up paying as low as a dollar for it, depending on their insurance situation.

See, there are stipulations in place that basically guarantee that you'll receive the drug at a reasonable price no matter what. e.g. If you don't have health insurance, you get the drug for free--which has been the case for 2/3 of his patients. All the rest pay $20 per capsule, which is nowhere within the realm of that $750 outrageousness the media kept harping on.

Meanwhile, other orphan drugs will have you paying hundreds upon thousands of dollars per year for recurrent treatment, whereas Daraprim just straight-up cures you of toxoplasmosis. And there's only a few thousand people who need the drug in the first place--so if not for the price hike, he wouldn't be able to turn any sort of profit whatsoever.

Considering all these factors, Shkreli was right--he picked an appropriate price. The media chose to blow it out of proportion and focus only on the headline's face value: "5000% price hike of life-saving drug," but this headline alone pays no heed to the finer details of the story. People don't have to worry about paying an exorbitant amount of money just to get this drug--if anything, it's the corporations that stock the drug that are hurt by this.

Unless you think that's the problem...

Either way, I can't help but feel for Shkreli. He's been labeled by journalists as the "most hated man in America," when he literally did nothing to earn that distinction. People are slowly beginning to realize how cool he actually is, though, so all isn't lost.

Shkreli be WILIN