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American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. - The New York Times

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Slavery helped turn America into a financial colossus. And our economy is still shaped by management practices invented by enslavers and overseers.

The 1619 Project examines the legacy of slavery in America. Read all the stories. Lyle Ashton Harris for The New York Times A couple of years before he was convicted of securities fraud, Martin Shkreli was the chief executive of a pharmaceutical company that acquired the rights to Daraprim, a lifesaving antiparasitic drug. Previously the drug cost $13.50 a pill, but in Shkreli’s hands, the price quickly increased by a factor of 56, to $750 a pill. At a health care conference, Shkreli told the audience that he should have raised the price even higher. “No one wants to say it, no o

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