Who Is Martin Shkreli: Hero Or Villain?

Martin Shkreli a young entrepreneur born in Brooklyn, N.Y., who at in early age skipped several grades in school and received a degree in business from New York’s Baruch College in 2004. Began his first internship at the age of 17 at Cramer Berkowitz & Co, the hedge fund founded by television personality Jim Cramer. In 2006 Martin Shkreli started his own hedge fund through Elea Capital Management. Martin Shkreli has a history of jumping from one employer to the other, such as Elea Capital Management, MSMB Capital Management, and Retrophin which ran out of MSMB. All of these companies have law suits against Martin Shkreli due to allegations of indecently handling of funds. In 2011, he founded the biotech firm Retrophin, with the goal of focusing

Before discussing Turing Pharmaceuticals, LLC., it is important to fully understand the history of Martin Shkreli’s career and his position at Turing Pharmaceuticals, as they have a causal significance in the development of the scandal.

(Source #6) In the article “Sick of Big Pharma’s Greed”, Bernie Sanders states that “the former CEO of Gilead (John Martin) became a billionaire

Merck & Co. Inc. is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies in the world for producers of prescription drugs. Merck had sales of 1.98 billion and net income of 307 million in 1978 and continues to steadily rise. Merck invested hundreds of millions of dollars each year in research and allocate the funds amongst various projects. On average it would take approximately 12 years and 200 million dollars to bring a new drug into the market. Many potential drugs offered little chance of financial returns, as some diseases were so rare that treatment could never be priced high enough for the company to recoup the investment. Congress sought to encourage drug companies to

I personally believe that in the play "Macbeth" there is many examples to use to further the point that power can corrupt a person sometimes. In the play, before Macbeth becomes the king and is just first told by the witches that he will become the king of Scotland at some point, he is very interested in this but is still wary and not sure what to expect. However, Lady Macbeth eventually convinces Macbeth to kill the king himself, which I think she was able to do because the idea of power was very alluring to Macbeth, so in a way it had already began to corrupt him. While it can be argued that this wasn't the power corrupting him and instead was outside influence from his wife and the witches, this opinion gets more discredited the further into the play you read because eventually once Macbeth becomes the king he makes corrupt decisions by himself out of fear of losing his power. such as when he orders that Macduffs' family be put to death and for his castle to be taken. In this specific situation the witches did warn him that Macduff was a threat to his power and his kingship, however no one convinced him or advised him to have his family murdered that was his own decision and what he felt he had to do to secure his position as king of Scotland.

Throughout time people have always had different ranges of power. The effect of this power is that some people lose control and allow power to corrupt them. Some prime examples of how power corrupts can be seen through the following people: Brutus in the play The tragedy of Julius Caesar, Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician from the Holocaust, and North Korea's political leader, Kim Jong Un. These three people have either let power corrupt them even more then they have already been corrupted, or they have allowed power to completely change their character, and corrupt them into being someone they are not.

The pharmacy business and healthcare in general is an immensely complex subject with profound ethical, economic and political intricacies and considerations. As discuss previously in this paper a lot of the issues with Shkreli arise from his own personality and a lack of moral turpi-tude. For the purpose of generating a reasonable solution we will put Shkreli’s personality aside and examine the specific strategy and conditions in the healthcare space that allowed Shkreli to single handedly raise the price of Daraprim by over 5000%. This section will examine the practice of trolling, a strategy used by Martin Shkreli and Turing pharmaceuticals to profit off the drug Daraprim despite adding nothing to the development or improvement of the drug.

It isn't true that power corrupts automatically. In Shakespeare's play Macbeth, Macbeth rises to power. However he does this in a corrupt fashion, and when he achieves his power he must maintain it was by killing any that could take it from him. However, Malcom son of king Duncan, takes away Macbeths power but instead of killing others to keep his power Malcom rewards his companions. It is not power itself that corrupts, but the method that you use to achieve it.

History is brimming with examples of people who, in a ravenous quest for power, have met their untimely end. Lord John Acton famously quipped: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." Perhaps, prior to making those astute remarks, Lord Acton had studied The Tragedy of Macbeth. The complex characters and their interactions in William Shakespeare’s iconic play reveal that corrupting force power can have on man.

In December 2008, one of the largest Ponzi scheme surfaced when Mark and Andrew Madoff reported the works of their father, Bernard Madoff to the federal authorities. A Ponzi scheme is an investing scam that promises high rates of return with little risk to investors. The operator generates returns for older investors by gaining new investors. Bernard was arrested on December 11, 2008 and charged with securities fraud. He pled guilty to 11 counts and was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison-the maximum possible prison sentence. A reported $17.3 billion was invested into the scam by Bernie’s clients and only about $2.48 billion have been returned to these victims as of September 2012.

Thesis statement: Power has the ability to corrupt someone but I believe it depends on the strength of the person to decide if it will overtake them or not.

“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men,” quoting historian Lord Acton. Before reading the quote, I never noticed the relationship between power and corruption in the real world. I thought of power as a form of recognition for hard work, that in turn is a positive outcome. After putting some thought into it, I realized my mistake

Power corrupts sometimes. It corrupts sometimes because in the book man is what corrupts because in chapter one old major said ," Man is the only creature that consumes without producing." in other words it is saying the man (people) take but at the same time they are not thank full for what they take because the animal

Power and corruption are concepts that are difficult to fully understand. Several controversies occur within these topics. There are both conventional and unconventional ways of viewing power. In an attempt to make a claim contrary to common belief, David Brin stated, “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible.” This statement is not accurate because power is the corrupting device responsible for a plethora of downfalls leaders have experienced.

Jerry Useem starts his article off connecting power to a prescription drug. He wants to open the idea that power can be just as bad. The first example mentioned in the article is the scandal involving the CEO of Wells Fargo, John Stumpf. This happened a few months ago with 5,000 employees setting up fake accounts for costumers. The CEO was brought to question and he apologized but he did not appear remorseful. The article followed through with research and asked the question what wasn’t going through the CEO’s head? A famous historian Henry Adams uses the metaphor, “a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.” This ties into the point of the article because too much power affects the brain of a person. Studies have shown the influence of power in people acted as if they suffered a “traumatic brain injury.” Another neuroscientist described it as “once we have power, we loose some of the capacities we needed to gain it in the first place.” There have been several experiments and studies done to look rather into the mind of a powerful person. They found that it is hard for a powerful person to recognize feelings of someone and that they “stop simulating the experience of others.” Scientists looked into mirroring and studied