This just in: greed not good.

• Author: Durst, Will
• Position: Rapacious pricing of life-saving drugs - Off the Map

All right, kids. Get this. And get it straight. Gordon Gekko was wrong. Greed is not good. Greed is bad. Greed eats away at the core of society like a parasitic leech the size of Manitoba. Or Saskatchewan. One of those provinces or territories or protectorates or whatever they use in Canada to keep their license plates distinctive.

And practicing and/or defending greed makes you nothing but a blood-sucking tick no matter how fancy a suit you're wearing. Or the size of the diamonds around your wrist. Or how free-range the organic heirloom Chicken Florentine is on your plate.

Gekko's quote originated in the movie Wall Street, which premiered in 1987. And after Vietnam and Watergate and an oil embargo and four years of scolding by Jimmy Carter, a little irrational exuberance may have seemed warranted. But that was almost thirty years ago. Too much is no longer not enough. Too much has gotten way out of hand. Today's too much is much much too much.

In his U.N. address, the Pope said it best: "A selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and disadvantaged." You know what? He's right. Got to love Papa Frankie. The guy is like a slightly older, more lovable Argentinian Bernie Sanders, with the crank dialed down to a manageable hum.

Let's be honest. What we're really talking about here is that idiot CEO Martin Shkreli, who raised the price of the life-saving drug Daraprim from $13.50 a pill to $750, because, and I quote, he "needs to start making a profit." A 5,455 percent increase, which if applied to onions would make a side of rings about three grand.

This rapacious price gouge follows in the carnivorous footsteps of Gilead Sciences, which developed a drug called Sovaldi, a treatment for Hepatitis C. The treatment regimen consists of eighty-four pills. Each one costing $1,000. That's right. $84,000. But then you're cured. After all, how much is your life worth? Half of what you own? Everything? Your first born?

Shkreli initiated the humongous hike immediately after the company...