Also, the fact that he's no longer "that guy" casts another of his most controversial moments in a slightly new light ...

Call me crazy, but taking the necessary action to make sure none of them can carry on as they have been strikes me as a strategy that would benefit the general public far more than continuing to direct all of our thoughts and energy on the subject toward finding new ways to give the world's most hate-worthy emo fan even more attention.

1 He Gave Congress Approximately As Much Respect As They Deserved

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Shkreli's most recent brush with the general public's eye came as a result of his testimony before Congress. Over the course of ten remarkably awkward minutes, he smirks, chuckles, and pleads the fifth in response to almost every question that comes his way. The exception is when someone asks if they're pronouncing his name correctly.

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It was rightly pointed to as another sign of his lack of remorse for the pain he's thought to have caused, but at the same time, he's not completely out of line to treat the entire thing like some kind of circus sideshow. That's what it is, if we're being honest with ourselves. The people asking these questions know everything there is to know about these drug price increases and why they happen. As mentioned before, it's not some kind of secret that's just been exposed. Drug companies have been doing this forever, and their ability to keep doing that was central to the passage of Obamacare. If the people asking the questions here don't already kind of know the answers, they're just fucking terrible at their jobs.

This has nothing to do with fact-finding; it's a notoriously inactive branch of the government pretending to do something about a problem, solely because recent headlines have forced their hand. He's got criminal charges pending against him, and you want him to come talk about how he games the healthcare system to generate windfall profits? What were they expecting was going to come from this stunt, aside from the endless string of fizzifs they got?

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I'll tell you! It makes them look like they're trying to fix things, but their efforts are being hindered by the evil pharmabro who won't help them figure out what to do. That's nonsense. This is a problem we know how to fix. I get that seeing Martin Shkreli smirk at the government is infuriating, but that he's there at all should bother you every bit as much. Money came out of your paycheck to put on this production.

Meanwhile, Daraprim is still $750 per pill. Martin Shkreli could go to prison forever and that fact wouldn't change one bit. Focusing all of our efforts on making sure he's personally punished for his price-gouging exploits is like fighting the drug epidemic by incarcerating users. As long as the means to make money in this way exists, drug companies are going to take advantage of it. If you want the problem to go away, then fix that. Anything else is just theatrics, as we've learned all too well over the past few months.

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