re: #169 Blind Frog Belly White

There is a point at which being a horrible person stops paying off. Martin Shkreli just hit that point, and Rage Furby can probably see it coming at him like a giant flyswatter.

I wish that were true, but I’m not really sure it is.

As appalling as Martin Shkreli is, the odds are greatly against him suffering any real penalty at all for his crimes. The vast majority of these prosecutions go nowhere. Furthermore, the most revolting things he’s done publicly aren’t even crimes. They’re things that are highly lucrative and rewarding.

Unfortunately, it’s not in the human condition. The rewards for being truly awful, provided you start from a position of privilege, are just too great, and the risks very small. We applaud success, especially in modern American society. We worship it. And as humans, we don’t care as a whole how immoral or unethical that success is.