He ended up pleading the fifth and refused to answer the Congressmen's very justified questions. While he knows he has no legal obligation to drop the price he "price gouges" consumers just as many companies did/do to storm victims (thank you Zoë pointing that out, it's terrible).
Taking your money "Feels good, man!"
While technically Shkreli may have took charge of his purchasing power and he saw it as a good move, this made his new company already seem like just a big, bad business and was certainly portrayed as such (and in my opinion, justifiably so). This whole situation just goes to show that even if the incentive for not raising the price is simply to let people live or seem like a good person or feel like a better person for maintaining these prices, it still doesn't matter to some people in the economic cycle. No matter how hard we try, some people will try to squeeze every last nickel possible out of this economy whether it's morally sound to do so or not.
High key I still hate Shkreli doeeeeeeeeeeeee
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