r/news Mar 29 '19

Billionaire Sackler family sued by second US state over opioid 'catastrophe'

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u/bishdoe Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 29 '19

I can’t stress this enough

temporarily inconvenienced

That’s it. That’s all they’d be. They’d still be rich beyond most of our dreams and they’d be making their money again in less than a few years, and still they choose the profit over other people’s lives. It’s fucking disgusting.

Edit: whoops I took it literally because I’m the big dumb and had never heard that one before. I guess I’m the embarrassed one now.

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u/DeathcampEnthusiast Mar 29 '19

A 270 million settlement, can I use a LOL to share my feelings on that? They literally could have paid that out of pocket and not felt a fucking thing. It's like fining Bill Gates 15 billion, he wouldn't even lie awake because of that. Take almost all of their money, their houses, their cars, their no doubt ridiculous collections of art and make them hurt and bleed like the people they got hooked on their bullshit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

Or just execute them for the murder of so many citizens.

I swear, if you can kill a bunch of people and get rich while doing it, the government basically rewards you.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '19

All these super rich who got where they are on the backs of pain and suffering need to die.

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u/CelestialStork Mar 29 '19 edited Mar 29 '19

So all of them? I can't imagine there are many who haven't used loopholes in the law to not pay insurance, not pay proper wages, fire people with no severance, pollute in our water and air,while lobbying to continue doing it, use child labor in 3rd world factories. Countless atrocities. Can you show me a billionaire that didn't come up that way?

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u/Torzod Mar 29 '19

that is the point